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- Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among others.
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Painter, sculptor and poet Robert De Niro, Sr. was a substantial contributor to post-war American art for his dedication to painterly representation. While his contemporaries eschewed the figurative style of the Old Masters, De Niro reveled in it. Yet, he manipulated this representative imagery in highly imaginative ways, using reality as a framewo...
Although influenced by the gestural panting of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, De Niro's aesthetic was primarily shaped through the subjects and styles of France's 19th-century artists a...De Niro helped to establish painterly representation as a specific, unique style in its own right, rather than a simple extension of existing European and American methods.The ongoing friction between reality and abstraction in De Niro's paintings sets them apart from those of his contemporaries. Almost all of his works are representational, but they are also very ex...Childhood
Robert De Niro was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1922. He began making art at age five and showed immediate and immense talent, eventually enrolling in adult classes at the Syracuse Museum. At only 12 years old, he impressed his teachers so much that he received his own studio in the museum school. While his Irish mother encouraged his painting, his Italian father did not. Despite his father's disapproval, De Niro continued developing his exceptional artistic skill.
Early Training
In 1939, De Niro spent a summer studying with legendary painter and teacher Hans Hofmann before spending two years on full scholarship at the avant-garde Black Mountain College in North Carolina, studying with Josef Albers. De Niro, however, disliked Albers' strict theories of color. In 1941, De Niro left Black Mountain for Hofmann's school in New York, feeling a stronger connection to Hofmann's style of creating abstract movement through color. For the next several years, De Niro studied wit...
Mature Period
In 1946, at only 24 years old, De Niro had his first one-man show at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery, a major exhibition space at the time. Clement Greenberg was among the critics who strongly praised his work, writing, "[T]he originality and force of his temperament demonstrate themselves under an iron control of the plastic elements such as is rarely seen in our time outside the painting of the oldest surviving members of the School of Paris." De Niro's paintings during this...
- American
- May 3, 1922
- Syracuse, New York
- May 3, 1993
Robert De Niro. born Syracuse, NY 1922-died New York City 1993 Also known as Robert De Niro, Sr. Born Syracuse, New York, United States ...
- May 3, 1922
- May 3, 1993
Oct 7, 2017 · Robert De Niro: Recent Paintings and Drawings, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (traveled to Asheville Art Museum, NC) Included in An American Choice: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, The ...
Through strong color and reductive shapes, he merged aspects of abstraction and representation in figure paintings, still lifes, and landscapes. DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of his vibrant art, featuring paintings and drawings from 1955-1989. A catalogue with an essay by Robert Kushner will be available. It will also ...
Women at the Well 1974-1978 Monotype printed in gouache color on paper, further highlighted 22 x 30 inches (sheet) 55.9 x 76.2 cm
Apr 19, 2012 · 535 West 22nd Street, Chelsea. Through April 28. In the expanding field of postwar American painting, more room should be made for the seductive yet rigorous art of Robert De Niro Sr....
