Demuth, Charles (1883-1935)
Charles Demuth, the first American Cubist-Realist, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1905 and spent time visiting Paris, London, and Berlin in 1907/8.
His first one-man show, in 1915, featured watercolour landscapes and flower paintings. For the next four years, Demuth undertook book illustration choosing the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and Emile Zola, which were well suited to his style and personal tastes.
In 1919 Demuth began to use two types of abstraction: one with symbolic forms often enclosed in circular frames, the other encompassing flat, prismatic shapes, crisscrossing diagonals, and streams of light. His subjects were taken from industrial motifs, ships, and country architecture. Demuth worked in both oil and tempera, applying these in a dry, economical manner that permitted a literal transposition of natural and architectural motifs into paint. His technique, visible also in the flower studies that occupied Demuth from 1925 until his death, influenced the Pop Art movement of the 1960's. |
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