Our Daily Dead

From the Earth Times web site comes that Dan Christensen, an abstract painter known for free use of color in various styles, died in East Hampton, N.Y., of heart failure due to a muscular disease.

“In the late 1960s, Christensen, 64, found that the realism of his classical art training was restrictive and began using spray guns to paint colorful stacked loops on canvas, winning him critical acclaim, The New York Times said. Besides the process of painting and experimentation, he was concerned about how color interacted.”

“Christensen, who initially was inspired by Jackson Pollock, painted until his death. His works are featured in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and the Whitney Museum of American Art.”

Terry Fenton has a nice write-up from 2001 covering Dan and his art. Mind you that the article does have a number of “post-painterly abstraction” and “post-postpainterly” type phrases in the write-up, but in general even non-artists such as the ODDones get the drift.

You may view one of Dan’s pieces at stia.org, another over at Spanierman Modern, another at Ask Art, and one more at Abstract-Art.

Go get cultured.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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