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Born in 1922 in Soviet Russia, Jules Olitski emigrated to the USA at a very young age. He was a master of Color Field Painting. After perfecting a spray-painting technique for laying colour onto his canvases, in the 1970s he went on to develop new techniques, spreading colours with a cloth or scraper or laying them on with a roller to create thickly structured surfaces. Jules Olitski died in 2007.


Born in 1922 in Snovsk, Russia
Died in 2007 in New York, USA
Education1939-42 - National Academy of Design, New York, USA
1940-42 - Beaux-Arts Institute, New York, USA
1949 - Ossip Zadkine School, Paris, France
1949-50 - Academia de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France
1952 - B.A, New York University, New York, USA
1954 - M.A., New York, University, New York, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)v

2024YaresArt, New York, USA
Jules Olitski, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2022Jules Olitski 100 Paintings 100 Years: A Centennial Retrospective, New York, USA
2020Jules Olitski: Color to the Core, Paintings: 1960-1964, Yares Art, N
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Summary of Jules Olitski

Jules Olitski was a Russian-born American painter who was instrumental in the development of the Color Field school. Like his contemporaries Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, Olitski stained the surface of his canvases in a technique that rejected the gestural brushwork of the then-popular Abstract Expressionist artists. With their emphasis on material, surface, and color's emotional strength, his signature works eliminated the illusion of depth and any evidence of the artist's touch. Although Olitski did not remain as well known as some of his fellow Color Field painters, his abstract "spray paintings" of the 1960s are still considered landmark works of this movement.

Accomplishments

  • Olitski was interested in conveying the evocative power of pure color. In his paintings of the 1960s and 1970s, he rejected any suggestion of imagery or narrative, taking abstraction to its outer limits.
  • Olitski pioneered a technique of applying paint to unprimed canvases with an industrial spray gun. He was thus able to show the paint at its airiest and most demat
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    Jules Olitski

    American artist (1922–2007)

    Jules Olitski

    Born

    Jevel Demikovski


    (1922-03-27)March 27, 1922

    Snovsk, Ukrainian SSR

    DiedFebruary 4, 2007(2007-02-04) (aged 84)
    CitizenshipUnited States
    EducationPratt Institute, National Academy of Design, Ossip Zadkine School, Academia de la Grande Chaumiere, New York University
    Known forPainting, sculpture, printmaking
    MovementColor Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism

    Jevel Demikovski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007), known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

    Early life

    Olitski was born Jevel Demikovsky in Snovsk, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine), a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Soviet government. He emigrated to the United States in 1923 with his mother and grandmother and settled in Brooklyn. His grandmother cared for him while his mother worked to support the family. In 1926 his mother married Hyman Olitsky (n

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