"Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death" is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, a showcase of a forgotten figure of American Modernism.
In our death-fearing age, the artwork of a Jewish-American master—overlooked in his own time but the subject of a new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts—has much to teach us.
A solo exhibition at the MFA explores the Boston painter's examination of life and death, and his unique embodiment of those ideas -- refusing to charm even at the dismay of his viewers.
In addition to owning the Christmas tree space–as an Orthodox Jew–Hyman Bloom could paint a corpse with the best of them.
"Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death" is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, a showcase of a forgotten figure of American Modernism.
Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock considered Hyman Bloom to be America’s first Abstract Expressionist, a label, it should be pointed out, that the artist himself rejected.
A solo exhibition at the MFA explores the Boston painter's examination of life and death, and his unique embodiment of those ideas -- refusing to charm even at the dismay of his viewers.
http://www.alphagallery.com/artists/bloom.htm http://www.hymanbloom.com/
In addition to owning the Christmas tree space–as an Orthodox Jew–Hyman Bloom could paint a corpse with the best of them.
http://www.alphagallery.com/artists/bloom.htm http://www.hymanbloom.com/
Galleries of paintings by Boston Expressionist artists Hyman Bloom.
Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock considered Hyman Bloom to be America’s first Abstract Expressionist, a label, it should be pointed out, that the artist himself rejected.
Galleries of paintings by Boston Expressionist artists Hyman Bloom.
According to the curator and Danforth Museum director for six months during the 1940s and two years after that Hyman Bloom was the most important arti...
The visionary who inspired Pollock and de Kooning is the subject of a long-awaited exhibition in Boston.
Click on any image to open a LightBox display Chandelier I (1944) Self Portrait (1948) Rocks and Autumn Leaves (1949) The Synagogue (1940) Still Life with Brown Floor (1983) Older Jew with Torah (1945) Treasure Map (1945) The Bride (1940) Archaeological Treasure (1945) Christmas Tree (1942) FallLandscape I (1981) Apparition of Danger (1951) Slaughtered Animal
Galleries of paintings by Boston Expressionist artists Hyman Bloom.
Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock considered Hyman Bloom to be America’s first Abstract Expressionist, a label, it should be pointed out, that the artist himself rejected.
Click on any image to open a LightBox display. Landscape #2 (1962) The Seance (1954) Rabbi with Torah (1955) The Seance Island Cave The Beggar Landscape #3 (1962) Pompeian Glass (1948) Fish Skeletons (1956) Skull (1980) The Rabbi (1957) Old Man Sleeping (1956) Law of the Fishes (1956)
When an artist achieves a level of fame and success it is often considered an injustice if, and when, they experience a fall from the limelight, it is also a fall from grace. But how remarkable in the first place that an artist is recognized, shown with some of the biggest names of their day, […]
dishranawaywithspoon: “ cavetocanvas: Hyman Bloom, Treasure Map, 1945 ”
Galleries of paintings by Boston Expressionist artists Hyman Bloom.
Painting is like silent poem, said Simonides, poet from ancient Greece.Paintings are icons, doors to the Platonian world above the heavens.
Admired by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Lowell, Hyman Bloom’s paintings depict a realm beyond language.
http://www.alphagallery.com/artists/bloom.htm http://www.hymanbloom.com/
FRAMINGHAM-The Danforth Museum of Art, thanks to its attention in recent years to a strain of artists known as the Boston Expressionists, has lately been showered with gifts from collectors of Boston Expressionism. This particular school of art skewed toward narrative and representation as Abstract Expressionism exploded and ran roughshod over figuration.
Galleries of paintings by Boston Expressionist artists Hyman Bloom.
Painting is like silent poem, said Simonides, poet from ancient Greece.Paintings are icons, doors to the Platonian world above the heavens.
http://www.alphagallery.com/artists/bloom.htm http://www.hymanbloom.com/
Hyman Bloom (August 18, 1913 August 26, 2009) was a Latvianborn American painter. His work was influenced by his Jewish heritage and Eastern religions as well as by artists including Altdorfer, Grnewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Blake, Bresdin, Ensor and Soutine. Many of his works feature macabre
Hyman Bloom Still Life with Green Bed Jacket 1980
Galleries of paintings by Boston Expressionist artists Hyman Bloom.
Galleries of paintings by Boston Expressionist artists Hyman Bloom.
Galleries of paintings by Boston Expressionist artists Hyman Bloom.
Galleries of paintings by Boston Expressionist artists Hyman Bloom.
