Life and Work of Ed Clark Essay

Hailed from the Storyville in the state of rude(a) Orleans, Ed ward Clark had do his imprint to the Visual and Arts field of the African American History. Born on 1926, he studied at Art Institute of Chicago for his four years degree from year 1947 to 1951. afterwards he finished his bachelors degree, he studied again in Paris at LAcademie de la Grande Chaumiere during the year 1952. In his years in Paris, the academe where he was into influenced him a round to pursue more and one his talent in pictorial matter and arts.His instructor named Edouard Georg of the LAcademie de la Grande Chaumiere, advance him to paint and make arts full treatment and pieces. But before his study in Paris, he already received good words and encouragement from his instructor in Art Institute of Chicago named Louis Ritman. However, though very much appreciated by Clark, neither of the two had become inspiration for him to make his own employ. It was the house painting entitled The Football Game c reated by Nicolas de Stael. He had seen the painting when he was in Paris the similar year 1952 in an exhibit in Salon dAutomne.After he lived in Paris, France, he came back to New York to continue his art profession and career. Clark became one of the charter members of the Tenth Streets Brata gallery. This was where the work of the famous workmans like Sal Romano and John Krushenick were displayed and shown. Also, the works of George Sugarman, Al Held, and Ronald Bladen were shown there. During the year 1957, his work with a cause canvass had been displayed on the same gallery where he had been a member in a Christmas base show. It was described in an article of Lawrence Campbell on Art News as the first and one of its kind.His works for over the five decades of being an abstract artist have been known internationally. With his work displayed in 1957 in the Brata gallery, which was a work in a shaped canvass, he was the very first painter to be credited having an innovated wo rk. In time, his kind of work had influenced the contemporary art during the years of 1950 and 1960. He became known of his works in large-shaped canvasses, his strong impact brush strokes, and his choice of colors in every masterpiece he made. And because of these things about him and he had made, he had been called as an Abstract Impressionist.Aside from the work that had been exhibited at Brata gallery, another work of Clark made him famous was the one that had been placed and displayed at his Alma Mater Art Institute of Chicago. This work of Clark belonged to the stable collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. After his very successful career as abstract artist in New York, he came back in France where he made his very first oval painting. To date, this was almost a decade after he firstly done his push broom technique in making his masterpieces.With his push broom technique, he was able to move himself freely while painting on the canvass, as a result, his strokes were bi g and bolded, and these made him more different among other abstract artist. Clark was forever and a day open for new creation and styles of his work. Aside from the push broom technique that he had first used, he also used the method similar to pouring sand. However, it was just inspired by the mentioned method and Clark made use of the dry pigments, this time on the paper instead on large canvass. During his times, it was the post war years of realism and years of abstraction.Also, the paintings of other artists were concentrated on the civil rights issue and racial clamors betwixt the white men and black men. Clark, though addressed almost the same issue, had delivered his works in a very different, although he was using large canvasses alike with other artists that time. After the 1950s, it was the Black Arts action and Abstraction that hounded the field of visual and arts. Black men asserted their culture authority in agate line with the civil rights they were asserting on the past decade. Clark also belonged to these artist where African American Arts were much honed.