Word: neoimpressionist
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...impressed one trustee that she offered him a five-year stipend to study in New York. He took classes at the National Academy of Design and spent the summers in Maine. Slowly he evolved a style of his own, ignoring conventional perspective, relying heavily on expressive brush strokes. The neoimpressionist result was what Haskell calls "a degree of gestural abstraction that would not be surpassed in America until abstract expressionism." Hartley called these works "little visions of the great intangible . . . Some will say he's gone mad-others will look and say he's looked...
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