Saturday, June 7, 2014

Degrazia And Munch Paintings

By Darren Hartley


DeGrazia paintings exhibited a passion for the creation of art depicting the lives and lore of the Sonoran Desert natives. An encounter with muralist Diego Rivera in 1942 led to an internship under Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. The two Mexican masters then sponsored a solo exhibition of DeGrazia paintings at the prestigious Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Tucson galleries showed no interest in exhibiting DeGrazia paintings. This prompted Ted to buy an acre of land at Prince Road and Campbell Avenue to build his first adobe studio in 1944. The following year, Ted received a BFA and a Master of Arts titled Art and its Relation to Music in Art Education.

DeGrazia paintings steadily attracted media attention. They were featured in the NBC newsreel titled Watch the World and in a profile article in a 1953 edition of National Geographic entitled From Tucson to Tombstone. It was in 1960 that their fame flourished when a 1957 DeGrazia oil painting, Los Ninos, was chosen by UNICEF for a holiday card. The card sold millions worldwide.

Munch paintings are known for the strong mental anguish that they displayed. This anguish is partly due to the way his father raised Edvard and his siblings. They were impounded with fears of hell and other deep seated issues.

The term given to the style of Munch paintings was Symbolism. They were expressions of a personal sense of art, instead of an external view. They were representations of the inward feelings and repressed emotions of Edvard. In short, what you get is not what you actually see, when it comes to Munch paintings.

Among the emotions showcased in Munch paintings were life and death, love and terror and the feeling of loneliness. These were the feelings focused on by Edvard's work patterns. These emotions were depicted in the contrasting lines, darker colors, blocks of colors, somber tones and concise and exaggerated forms in his art works.




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