Exhibit runs May 19 through June 19
Dear Reader
Arthur PINAJIAN: Master of Abstraction Discovered
Exhibit runs May 19 through June 19
According to William Innes Homer, Professor and Chair Emeritus of the University of Delaware’s Department of Art History, the discovery of Arthur Pinajian’s body of artwork is historically significant for several reasons.
First:
The discovery of a high quality artist’s nearly complete oeuvre is rare and exceptional, particularly when it includes significant ephemera. This does not happen every day!!
Second:
By a consensus of several noted art historians and critics as well as a growing body of collectors, Pinajian is a worthy artist deserving of critical attention of the highest order. Recently, film documentarian Donald Pruden and Professor Homer were comparing reproductions of works by contemporary artists, living or recently deceased, with works by Pinajian. In virtually every case, Pinajian’s pictures held their own and at times surpassed the competing examples (including works by second generation Abstract Expressionist such as Joan Mitchell and Michael Goldberg — who have record prices for individual works in the 7 and 6 figures respectively).
Third:
Pinajian was a rare theoretical artist, uncommon in our time. His desire to find a rational basis for art can be compared to that of Seurat, Mondrian, and Kandinsky. Central to his thinking was the concept of structural color which he articulated in his writings and his visual presentations. This was a fundamental tenet in modern art from Cezanne to Abstract Expressionism, and Pinajian mastered it creatively. Pinajian was a true philosopher of art, a rarity in his era and well worth our attention.
Fourth:
He was an extraordinarily inventive creator of a Surrealist pictorial vocabulary. He is virtually without parallel in this area of creativity. Material from his sketch books in particular are rich in surrealist imagery.
New York School Artist: Arthur Pinajian (1914 – 1999)
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor
William Innes Homer
He is professor and chair emeritus of the University of Delaware’s Department of Art History, one of the country’s most prestigious American Art programs. An internationally recognized expert in both European and American painting from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, Dr. Homer is the author of many critically acclaimed scholarly books and articles, including major books on Georges Seurat, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Henri, and Thomas Eakins.
Peter Hastings, Falk
The author of many reference book on American artists, Mr. Falk is best known for his three-volume biographical dictionary, Who Was Who in American Art, as well as for pioneering in the publishing of art auction indices. His research tools include his extensive Exhibition Record Series, and he has written more than thirty scholarly monographs on American artists.
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