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Barbara Rossi (artist)
Barbara Rossi (September 20, 1940 – August 24, 2023) was an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group that in the 1960s and 1970s turned to representational art. She first exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969. She is known for meticulously rendered drawings and cartoonish paintings, as well as a personal vernacular. She worked primarily by making reverse paintings on plexiglass that reference Lowbrow (art movement), lowbrow and outsider art. Rossi was a teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works are exhibited in several permanent art museum collections. Life and career Barbara Rossi was born in Chicago on September 20, 1940, and lived in Berwyn, Illinois. She received her Bachelor of Arts from St. Xavier College in 1964. Before pursuing her career as an artist, she spent several years as a Catholic nun. Rossi's drawing style began to emerge in 1967, while she was taking a course at the School of the Art Institute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chicago Imagists
The Chicago Imagists are a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s. Their work was known for grotesquerie, Surrealism and complete indifference to New York art world trends. Critic Ken Johnson referred to Chicago Imagism as "the postwar tradition of fantasy-based art making."Ken Johnson, "ART IN REVIEW; Ray Yoshida," The New York Times, September 17, 1999 Senior ''Chicago'' magazine editor Christine Newman said, "Even with the Beatles and the Vietnam War in the forefront, the artists made their own way, staking out their time, their place, and their work as an unforgettable happening in art history." The Imagists had an unusually high proportion of female artists. There are three distinct groups which, outside of Chicago, are indiscriminately bundled together as Imagists: the Monster Roster, the Hairy Who, and The Chicago Imagists. The Monster Roster The Monster R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |