Richard Pousette-Dart
(American, 1916–1992)
Biography
Richard Pousette-Dart was an American artist best known for his large-scale abstract paintings. Composed of aggregate patterns and forms, his works form sprawling, frenetic compositions that made Pousette-Dart one of the founders of the New York School of painting. Born on June 8, 1916 in Saint Paul, MN, he fostered an interest in art at an early age, going on to attend Bard College in 1936 but quickly abandoning his studies to pursue dreams of artistic independence in New York City. Like the early Modernists, Pousette-Dart absorbed aesthetics from native art through frequenting the American Museum of Natural History. “The greater the work of art, the more abstract and impersonal it is,” he had said, “The more it embodies universal experience, and the fewer specific personality traits it reveals.” Frequenting the lower Manhattan pub scene that included fellow Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Pousette-Dart quickly rose to prominence as one of New York's leading abstract painters, inspiring younger artists like Richard Tuttle and Robert Rauschenberg. Pousette-Dart died on October 25, 1992 in New York, NY, and his work can be found in the collections of institutions like the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Vatican Museum in Rome, Italy.
Richard Pousette-Dart
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.jpg "Untitled (Presence, Black Circle), 1978")
.jpg "Untitled (The Chalice), 1940")
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