Sunday, June 8, 2014

Paintings Of Degrazia And Munch

By Darren Hartley


DeGrazia paintings exhibited a passion for the creation of art depicting the lives and lore of the Sonoran Desert natives. An encounter with muralist Diego Rivera in 1942 led to an internship under Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. The two Mexican masters then sponsored a solo exhibition of DeGrazia paintings at the prestigious Palacio de Bellas Artes.

In 1944, Ted bought an acre of land at Prince Road and Campbell Avenue to build his first adobe studio. This was after Tucson galleries showed no interest in exhibiting appreciative DeGrazia paintings. It was in this studio where he met Marion Sheret and subsequently married her in the jungles of Mexico in 1947.

DeGrazia paintings became widely successful from 1960 to the mid 70s. Ted's gallery flourished with hundreds of thousands of yearly visitors. In 1976, a protestation against inheritance taxes on art works led Ted to haul 100 DeGrazia paintings on horseback and set them ablaze in the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix.

The mental illness Edvard Munch's father suffered from appears to be the root cause for the strong mental anguish displayed in the majority of Munch paintings. Brought up with impounding fears of hell, Edvard grew up with many repressed emotions that led to his work taking a deeper tone.

Symbolism was the reference given to the style Edvard created for his Munch paintings. This style focused on the internal view of objects, rather than the exterior or what the eye could see. It was a design around the way Edvard felt, his repressed emotions, showcasing his inward feelings.

Among the emotions showcased in Munch paintings were life and death, love and terror and the feeling of loneliness. These were the feelings focused on by Edvard's work patterns. These emotions were depicted in the contrasting lines, darker colors, blocks of colors, somber tones and concise and exaggerated forms in his art works.




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