The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life - Softcover

Schueler, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985288438

Verlag: Magda Salvesen, 2023

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The Sound of Sleat “is an amazing, totally peculiar piece of work. It may be the best thing ever written about the workings of a painter’s mind and eye.” Phoebe-Lou Adams, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1999

Jon Schueler (1916-1992), the American Abstract Expressionist painter, left New York in 1957 for Mallaig, a Scottish village overlooking the Sound of Sleat between the mainland and the Isle of Skye. Here, the dramatic play of light in the northern skies inspired his art and influenced his entire career.
Over 30 years, as he painted, Schueler worked on this book, struggling to describe the forces that compelled him to paint. At the same time, he wrestled with the eternal artistic conflict: how to balance creative solitude and the equally powerful need for human intimacy. The Sound of Sleat offers a fascinating window on art, passion, hope, despair, and creativity

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Jon Schueler, an American Abstract Expressionist painter, came to painting late in life, taking his first classes in Los Angeles after he had already married and begun a family. But under teachers Clyfford Still and Richard Diebenkorn at the California School of Fine Arts, he quickly discovered a talent and a love for painting that compelled him to move to New York, where he began to define and perfect his artistic vision.An early protégé of Leo Castelli, Schueler lived and worked among the country's most gifted artists: Mark Rothko, Joan Mitchell, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and many others. But when in the late 1950s nature became a stronger poetic force in his work, Schueler set off for Scotland. He discovered Mallaig, a town in the Western Highlands on the Sound of Sleat, where the dramatic landscape inspired his art and continued to influence him throughout his career.Over nearly thirty years, as he painted, Schueler worked on this book. In it, he struggled to uncover what it was that drove him to paint and wrestled with a conflict that confronts all artists-how to strike a balance between the need to create in solitude and the desire for human intimacy.JON SCHUELER grew up in Milwaukee and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1951 he moved to New York and from his base there he sojourned in Scotland, Paris, Italy, and at several universities in the United States. He died in 1992.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Magda Salvesen
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798985288438
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 422
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