Art Green (artist)

For other people named Art Green or Arthur Green, see Arthur Green (disambiguation).
Art Green
Born (1941-05-13) May 13, 1941 (age 83)
Frankfort, Indiana, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago
Known forPainter
MovementChicago Imagism
SpouseNatalie Novotny (d. 2020)

Arthur Green (born May 13, 1941) was one of the original Hairy Who members from Chicago, a group of students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited together in the 1960s and 1970s and made representational art with a slight surrealist touch.[1] He was also a member of the University of Waterloo's faculty for over 30 years.[2] His painting style mixes pop-art motifs with surrealist tendencies.[3] His upbringing in Chicago and its vicinity may have influenced him, from the accessibility of the Art Institute of Chicago to the architecture of Louis Sullivan, but he also may have been influenced by advertisements from the 1940s and 1950s that had undertones of sexuality.[2] His paintings drew from American popular imagery, but complicated it, often using the full spectrum of vibrant colors and combining trompe l'oeil effects to play with the viewer's sense of balance.[4]

  1. ^ Loos, Ted (April 3, 2017). "Chicago to Take the Spotlight With Ambitious 2018 Art Event". New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b Art Green: Certain Subjects. New York: Garth Greenan Gallery. 2013. ISBN 9780989890212.
  3. ^ Gruber, Terry (1977). "Art Green". Arts Magazine. 51 (9): 16.
  4. ^ Applegate, Judith (1970). "Paris Letter". Art International. 14 (5): 65.