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BIOGRAPHY
NY Times Article
Born
in 1909, Joseph Solman was the founder of the group, The Ten, in
New York in 1935 along with Marcus Rothkowitz (Mark Rothko), John
Graham, Adolph Gottlieb, and Ben-Zion.
Mr. Solman has been very influential since the
'30's and '40's among artists and collectors and he is represented
in many major museums in the country. He made his mark on the New
York art world with his street scenes, studio interiors, and portraiture.
Greatly inspired and influenced by the European
moderns at the Second Armory Show in New York, Solman incorporated
the achievements of the Europeans into his own style: a fusion of
representationalism, Cubism, and abstraction. Unlike the members
of The Ten who became Abstract Expressionists, Solman never abandoned
subject matter and insisted on remaining a modern figurative painter.
"I have long discovered for myself that
what we call the subject," he has written, "yields more
pattern, more poetry, more drama, greater abstract design and tension
than any shapes we may invent."
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