ART MONOGRAPHS Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray has been moving forward fearlessly during more than 4 decades
constantly inventing new shapes for the unique style of painting
for which she is known. Her decision to become an artist was the
result of an encounter with a still life by Cezanne at the Art Institute
of Chicago as a student. Subsequently many artists had an impact
on her thinking, the Surrealists, deKooning, and Guston, just to
name a few. Earlier influences were the Sunday comics, which she
grew up with, as well as popular culture in general. Remarkably
she was able to distill all these impulses into an art that was
distinctly her own. The Museum of Modern Art acknowledged her position
in contemporary art with a large retrospective exhibition curated
by Robert Storr. |
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