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Larry Poons (1937)

Aliases: Lawrence Poons

Professions: Painter

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    ƒ LARRY POONS né en 1937 Sans titre, 1967-1968 Acrylique et crayon sur toile 100 x 460 cm

    ƒ LARRY POONS né en 1937 Sans titre, 1967-1968 Acrylique et crayon sur toile 100 x 460 cm

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    LARRY POONS

    LARRY POONS

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    Larry Poons, (American, b. 1937), Untitled, 1967

    Larry Poons, (American, b. 1937), Untitled, 1967

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    Larry Poons , Parrot Island acrylic on canvas, unframed

    Larry Poons , Parrot Island acrylic on canvas, unframed

Larry Poons Biography

(b Ogibuko, Japan, 1 Oct 1937). American painter. He first attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 1955 but entered the School of the Museum of Fine Arts two years later to study painting. He left the school after six months and in 1958 moved to New York. There he became influenced by the hard-edge geometric compositions of American abstract painters such as Stuart Davis and Fritz Glarner and by the late works of Piet Mondrian. At the same time Poons met Barnett Newman, who became a source of inspiration and support. Having been advised to simplify his work by curator and writer Henry Geldzahler (b 1935), who introduced him to the proto-Minimalist abstractions of Frank Stella, Poons began to draw points on graph paper that he would then connect with lines, soon focusing on the points themselves by applying small or large dots of oil paint on backgrounds of vivid acrylic paint. These dot paintings possessed the vibrating optical intensity typical of OP ART.

Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online

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