Saturday, June 7, 2014

Degrazia Paintings And Munch Paintings

By Darren Hartley


DeGrazia paintings exhibited a passion for the creation of art depicting the lives and lore of the Sonoran Desert natives. An encounter with muralist Diego Rivera in 1942 led to an internship under Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. The two Mexican masters then sponsored a solo exhibition of DeGrazia paintings at the prestigious Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Tucson galleries showed no interest in exhibiting DeGrazia paintings. This prompted Ted to buy an acre of land at Prince Road and Campbell Avenue to build his first adobe studio in 1944. The following year, Ted received a BFA and a Master of Arts titled Art and its Relation to Music in Art Education.

DeGrazia paintings steadily attracted media attention. They were featured in the NBC newsreel titled Watch the World and in a profile article in a 1953 edition of National Geographic entitled From Tucson to Tombstone. It was in 1960 that their fame flourished when a 1957 DeGrazia oil painting, Los Ninos, was chosen by UNICEF for a holiday card. The card sold millions worldwide.

The mental illness Edvard Munch's father suffered from appears to be the root cause for the strong mental anguish displayed in the majority of Munch paintings. Brought up with impounding fears of hell, Edvard grew up with many repressed emotions that led to his work taking a deeper tone.

Symbolism was the reference given to the style Edvard created for his Munch paintings. This style focused on the internal view of objects, rather than the exterior or what the eye could see. It was a design around the way Edvard felt, his repressed emotions, showcasing his inward feelings.

Among the emotions showcased in Munch paintings were life and death, love and terror and the feeling of loneliness. These were the feelings focused on by Edvard's work patterns. These emotions were depicted in the contrasting lines, darker colors, blocks of colors, somber tones and concise and exaggerated forms in his art works.




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