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L.A. Raw, Abstract Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, From Rico LeBrun to Paul McCarthy


  • The Pasadena Museum of California Art 490 Union Street Pasadena, CA, 91101 United States (map)

L.A. RAW surveys the continuing presence of dark expressionistic work in Southern California, providing a fresh local heritage for the figurative art of today. The exhibition fills in a gap in knowledge about post World War II art, tracking figurative art through postwar existentialism, the Beat movement, 1960s politics, and 1970s feminism and performance -- the forces that lead to the explosion of body-oriented art in the 1980s.

Buried Doll, 1955

Oil on board

Collection of the Cameron Parsons Foundation

Dark Angel, 1955

Gouache on board

Collection of the Cameron Parsons Foundation

Peyote Drawing, 1957

Ink on paper

Collection of the Cameron Parsons Foundation

Source: https://www.tfaoi.org/aa/10aa/10aa32.htm
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