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  2. Bay Area Figurative Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...

  3. Roland Petersen - Wikipedia

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    Roland Petersen was a part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement—a mid-20th Century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward into the 1960s. [3]

  4. Joan Brown - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1950s, Joan Brown was a maturing artist who helped make California, and the Bay Area in particular, an important artistic center. Brown worked with multiple other artists to make popular the concepts of figurative painting, Beat Generation culture, and Funk art.

  5. Gary Ruddell - Wikipedia

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    Essentially leaving the illustration scene. Since this shift, Ruddell has been exhibiting and showing in museums, galleries, universities and exhibitions across the United States. He has cited Bay Area Figurative Movement as a significant influence on his art. [2]

  6. James Weeks (artist) - Wikipedia

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    James Darrell Northrup Weeks (December 1, 1922 – January 3, 1998) was an American artist and an early member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. [1] Unlike many artists in the movement, Weeks was never known for painting in a non-representational style, instead using abstraction in the "ideas of painting."

  7. American Figurative Expressionism - Wikipedia

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    The Boston origins of the American movement date to a "wave of German and European-Jewish immigrants" in the 1930s and their "affinities to the contemporary German strain of figurative painting ... in artists like Otto Dix (1891–1969), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), and Emil Nolde (1867–1956), both in style and in subject matter," art historian Adam ...

  8. David Park (painter) - Wikipedia

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    David Park (March 17, 1911 – September 20, 1960) [1] was an American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s. Biography [ edit ]

  9. Elmer Bischoff - Wikipedia

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    Elmer Nelson Bischoff (July 9, 1916 – March 2, 1991), [1] was an American visual artist, from the San Francisco Bay Area. [2] Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and found their way back to figurative art.