![]() The American architectural photographer Charles Sheeler was commissioned in 1927 to photograph the Ford Motor Company’s new industrial complex, which was built along the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan. This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA).Precisionism emerged after World War I and lived its peak during the 1920s and 1930s. About Davis' paintings of the late 1960s in an essay accompanying the Ronald Davis retrospective exhibition Forty Years of Abstraction, at the Butler Institute of American Art in 2002, the abstract painter Ronnie Landfield wrote: "the Dodecagons from 1968–69 remain among the most visually stunning, audacious and intellectually interesting bodies of work made by an abstract painter in the last half of the twentieth century." In an Artforum article in 1970 artist/art critic Walter Darby Bannard commented: "Though Davis is plagued by "series" ideas, and has yet to get a grip on the inherent monumentality of his style, he is young and inspired, and these things will evolve naturally." From 1966 to 1972 Ron Davis created geometric shaped, illusionistic paintings using polyester resins and fiberglass. In a letter to the Tate Gallery, which had acquired the 1968 painting Vector, Davis described the technique he began using in 1966: How to reconcile the literal object produced with the latest technology with transcendental metaphor became the problem that occupied throughout the Sixties." Alone among his contemporaries, Ronald Davis was equally concerned with traditional problems of painting: space, scale, detail, color relationships and illusions as he was with the California emphasis on hi-tech craft and industrial materials. ![]() ![]() his is essentially an inversion of Old Master layering and glazing except that color is applied behind rather than on top of the surface. Because his colored pigments are mixed into a fluid resin and harden quickly, multiple layers of color may be applied without becoming muddy. Instead of glass, he used fiberglass to create a surface that was equally transparent and detached from any illusion of reality. Among other observations she wrote: "Davis saw a way to use Duchamp's perspective studies and transparent plane in The Large Glass for pictorial purposes. According to art critic Michael Fried: "Ron Davis is a young California artist whose new paintings, recently shown at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, are among the most significant produced anywhere during the past few years, and place him, along with Stella and Bannard, at the forefront of his generation." He had his first one-person exhibition at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles in 1965.īarbara Rose wrote an in depth essay about Ronald Davis' paintings of the 1960s in the catalogue accompanying an exhibition of his Dodecagon Series in 1989 in Los Angeles. Ronald Davis from the earliest days of his career had a significant impact on contemporary abstract painting of the mid-1960s. Since 1991 he has lived and worked in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico on the outskirts of Taos, New Mexico. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, 1965–71 and in Malibu, CA, 1972–1990. In 1963 his paintings became hard-edged, geometric and optical in style, and by 1964 his works were shown in important museums and galleries. In 1962 he was a Yale-Norfolk Summer School Grantee. Abstract Expressionism, the prevailing artistic movement of the time, would have an influence on many of his future works. In 1960–64 he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1959 at the age of 22 became interested in painting. In 1955–56 he attended the University of Wyoming. He is a veteran of nearly seventy solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions.īorn in Santa Monica, California, he was raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Ronald "Ron" Davis (born 1937), is an American painter whose work is associated with Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Shaped canvas painting, Color field painting, and 3D Computer Graphics.
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