Jules Olitsky

Presentation

Origin

• Born: March 22nd,1922; SNovsk, Ukraine
• Died: New York, Feb. 4, 2007, Cancer
• Is a Russian-American Painter

Style of Painting

• Style was Color FIeld and Post-Painterly Abstraction
• Mainly and only abstract Expressionism

Places He Studied

• Pratt Institute,1939; National Academy of Design, 1942; Ossip Zadkine School, 1946
• Academic de la Grande Chaumiere, 1951
• New York University, 1954
• Long Island University as a teacher and taught

PLaces He liked to be

• Had houses in New York, New Hampshire, and Florida

Was INfluenced By

• Frank Stella, Michael Fried
• Loved COlor Field Painting

Influenced

• Hans Hoffmen, Joan Miro, Helen Frankenthaler, Clyfford Still, Ossip Zadkine, Clement Greenberg, Hilton KRamer, Kennth Noland, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis
• Influenced art movements Favisms and Abstract Expressionism

Quote

• "I think of painting as possessed by a structure.. but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout."