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George Earl Ortman (October 17, 1926 – December 16, 2015) was an American painter, printmaker, constructionist and sculptor. His work has been referred to as Neo-Dada, pop art, minimalism and hard-edge painting.
Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter.He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. [1] As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, however, none of these occurred at the same time as any popular emerging style or acted against a particular art form. [2]
The figure in the artwork—a black man dressed in a midnight blue police uniform—represents the totalitarian black mass. [3] The hat that frames the head of the policeman resembles a cage, and represents what Basquiat believes are the constrained independent perceptions of African-Americans at the time, and how constrained the policeman's own perceptions were within white society.
A triple fore-edge painting has, in addition to paintings on the edges, a third painting applied directly to the edges (in lieu of gilt or marbling). An edge painting that is a continuous scene wrapped around more than one edge is called a panoramic fore-edge painting. This is sometimes called a triple edge painting. [7] [8]
Drawing from his Puerto Rican culture, la hara derives from the Nuyorican term la jara, slang for police, which is a play on the Irish surname O'Hara. [3] O'Hara was considered a common surname for New York police officers during the 1940s and 1950s. [4] The bottom of the painting is gray with steel jail cell bars.
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