MODERN ART WEST

The Bay Area Figurative movement, which grew out of and was in reaction to both West Coast and East Coast varieties of Abstract Expressionism, was a local phenomenon and yet was responsive to the most topical national tendencies. Many thoughtful younger artists ... sought to infuse fresh meaning into the style (ABEX) by introducing recognizable imagery.
- Caroline A. Jones, Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, University of California Press

The ethical statement of Bay Area Figurative painting was essentially the same as that of Abstract Expressionism: that art is primarily a process by which not only the work of art but the artist himself is continually being created.
- Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980, University of California Press.


	BAY AREA SCHOOL FIGURATIVE
	Elmer Bischoff	William Theo Brown	Mel Hanson
	Eleanor Kent	Bruce McGaw	Nathan Oliveira
		James Weeks
	The Bay Area Figurative movement, which grew out of and was in reaction to both West Coast and East Coast varieties of Abstract Expressionism, was a local phenomenon and yet was responsive to the most topical national tendencies. Many thoughtful younger artists ... sought to infuse fresh meaning into the style (ABEX) by introducing recognizable imagery. - Caroline A. Jones, Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, University of California Press The ethical statement of Bay Area Figurative painting was essentially the same as that of Abstract Expressionism: that art is primarily a process by which not only the work of art but the artist himself is continually being created. - Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980, University of California Press.
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