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Kenneth Potter의 작품들 (화가, 첫번째)







































Kenneth Potter was born in 1926 in Bakersfield, California. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Academy Frochot (Paris), Istituto Statale Dei Belle Arte (Florence). As a teenager, he visited in 1939, International Art Exhibition in San Francisco, where he saw many works of the greatest artists mira. He was delighted with the contemporary works, especially the French modernists. When America entered World War II, Kenneth Potter joined the U.S. Marines. In rare moments of spare time he sketched portraits of his friends - Marines and sailors. Many of these sketches were sent home to their loved ones. After the war, he visited New York and Chicago before returning to San Francisco. Kenneth Potter was a master of watercolor, but that he did not stop. He traveled to Italy and France and studied painting at the famous Jean Metzinger / Jean Metzinger (cubism). He attended classes with Fernand Leger and Albert Gleizes. In Italy, Kenneth Potter received lessons of fresco painting and drawing. For a time he lived in New York and Brazil, and eventually returned to San Francisco. He lived in an apartment in an area that was the center of the West Coast for artists, poets, jazz musicians and philosophers. He wrote daily watercolors, visited the embankment and the Embarcadero, where he wrote the images of ships, cranes and industrial facilities. When it was decided to demolish the old neighborhood, he made a series of paintings that are masterpieces of world art and serve as valuable historical documents. Kenneth Potter worked primarily with transparent watercolor and is known for his ability to manipulate large areas of the current color, passing into a bold composition design. His art often shows the influence of Cubism, which is natural for innovative artists of the time, but his personal style is dominant in his work.


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