Philip Taaffe

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Philip Taaffe (* 1955 in Elizabeth , New Jersey ) is an American painter.

Life

Taaffe began his artistic training in the mid-1970s at the Cooper Union New York with the artist Hans Haacke and had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1982. He traveled through the Middle East, India, Morocco, Japan and South America and lived in Naples from 1988 to 1991. Taaffe lives in New York.

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Philip Taaffe became internationally known with the Appropriation Art movement in the early 1980s . He started out from the tradition of non-representational painting of the 20th century and combined his conception of abstract art with studies on ornament. A long stay in Naples and trips through North Africa, the Middle East, India, South America and Japan developed his enthusiasm for the ornamentation and abstraction techniques of different cultures, which he still uses today as a fund for his work. Since the mid-1990s, Taaffe has been expanding its sources to include depictions of nature, mainly from historical books and scientific treatises. According to his own admission, the artist is “always on the lookout for representatives that are so typical of their species that they almost exist as abstract elements (...).” Taaffe varies and processes his motif vocabulary by using shapes, symbols and ornaments in new surprising constellations, as fragments and in bright colors on the canvas and thus in a new context. His work is represented in museums and collections in New York, Vienna, Rome, Hamburg and Berlin. The first major retrospective of his works from 1980 to 2008, entitled “The Life of Shapes”, took place in 2008 at the Wolfsburg Art Museum .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Astrid Mania, Schöne Alchemie , artnet , March 17, 2008, accessed July 1, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Taaffe, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Elizabeth , New Jersey