Post by jennifercyr on Dec 30, 2011 2:16:20 GMT -5
Noel Rockmore was known by the denizens of the French Quarter as an outrageous Pablo Picasso-like figure who combined the mythological and the real. Animal Painting He produced some 15,000 oil paintings, temperas, collages and sketches over his career and then died in obscurity. Landscape Painting
His paintings hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum. Boats Painting He was a bright young American artist who had a taste for Rembrandt and figurative paintings, with the outlook of an American social realist. Flower Painting Then, the art world changed: Abstract expressionism — typified by the paint throwing of Jackson Pollock — became the rave. Rockmore, who admired draftsmanship in painting, detested it. Famous Painting
Rockmore changed: He left his wife and three children, changed his last name and headed to New Orleans in 1959, where he would eventually get lost to the New York art world.
His paintings hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum. Boats Painting He was a bright young American artist who had a taste for Rembrandt and figurative paintings, with the outlook of an American social realist. Flower Painting Then, the art world changed: Abstract expressionism — typified by the paint throwing of Jackson Pollock — became the rave. Rockmore, who admired draftsmanship in painting, detested it. Famous Painting
Rockmore changed: He left his wife and three children, changed his last name and headed to New Orleans in 1959, where he would eventually get lost to the New York art world.