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Mark Schlesinger

Artwork Details

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1990
Mark Schlesinger
oil on linen
25 in. x 4 ft. x 1 3/4 in. (63.5 x 121.92 x 4.45 cm)
Gift of Leonard Rosenberg
2015/2.95

Description

Subject Matter:

Though he was a successful New York-based artist starting in the 1970s, Schlesinger's career took off in the 1990s alongside contemporaries like Rodney Alan Greenblatt and Mark Kostabi. In the 1980s, he began teaching art at a high school in Manhattan, and this sparked a resurgence in his painting creativity. The paintings, such as this one, feature geometric forms that seem to flow across the canvas, having a natural movement onto themselves. Schlesinger revamps old modernist tropes in order to create more cheerful abstract compositions.

Physical Description:

This painting has a curved brown shape crossing the lower right corner on a tan background.

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