Description:
abstracted street corner with figures; city; man; woman
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George McNeil grew up in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Irish immigrants. His paintings reflect the vibrancy of the city he called home most of his life. McNeil was trained as an abstract painter, but integrated the figure into his work early in his career.
McNeil uses distorted figures in "Spring Street" to break up the pictorial space of the canvas. The surface of the painting is alive with color and gesture.
"Trying to make my paintings come alive pictorially and psychologically is an attempt to celebrate the pulsating vividness of being, mostly joyously but sometimes somberly as well. In both cases I go toward a liberating form, for breaking art experience, for going further." George McNeil
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