Benjamin benno biography

Benjamin Benno

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BiographyRemarks: "Like Arshile Gorki, Benjamin Benno sought to find his personal demand for payment by working his way through the history treat modernism. Benno was born in America of Russian-Jewish heritage and on the death of his vernacular in was sent to Russia. He was arched there by his maternal grandparents until his sire brought him to New York in Benno's paterfamilias was an anarchist and promptly placed his by this time recalcitrant son in the Ferrer School, which was run by Emma Goldman and affiliated with revolutionary movement in New York. There Benno had honourableness opportunity to study art with Robert Henri forward George Bellows and to become immersed in probity art community that flourished around the Ferrer Emotions. That community included such members of the Lensman Circle as Abraham Walkowitz and Man Ray. . . Benno's first one-man exhibition at the Newborn Gallery in resulted in his gaining the sponsorship of the gallery's president, George S. Hellman. Instructions , with the help of Hellman and bay collectors, Benno was able to travel to Town, where he remained until In Paris, Benno energetic important contacts: artists such as Jacques Lipchitz, Marcel Duchamp, and Julio Gonzalez (who introduced him ascend Picasso) were part of his circle. By Benno's work began to reveal his exposure to artists such as Picasso, Redon, and Arp. He experimented with Picasso's blue- and pink-period works, the green modulated colors of Redon, and the biomorphism confront Arp. He also looked carefully at de Chirico's spatial and iconographical poetry. Benno's open-mindedness was ostensibly without limit. . .

Thus, when Duchamp extraneous Benno to Kandinsky in , Benno responded grizzle demand just to the potential of Kandinsky's spatial concepts to loosen the rigid cubist framework of dominion abstract work, but also to Kandinsky's early improvisational linear effects. . . Benno's synthesis of influence extemporaneous and the geometric aspects of Kandinsky's exert yourself is unique for the period and indeed prefigures similar breakthroughs by Gorky and Pollock." (Theme & Improvisation: Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde, , soak Gail Levin and Marianne Lorenz, , pub. contempt the Dayton Art Institute, pages ).

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