Larry Rivers American, 1923-2002 Untitled, (Shoes), 1961 Signed Rivers and dated '61 (lr) Oil and graphite on paper mounted to board 12 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (31.11 x 36.19 cm) The subject of shoes, as well as many of the subjects Rivers addressed early on, is an important part of the development of American Pop Art. Among many of his pre-Pop works, Rivers was doing shoes in a manner that clearly distinguished his work from that of Warhol's initial approach to the subject. With Warhol, we see him appropriating a more literal illustration of shoes, but Larry Rivers is directly translating the commercial subject into a source for an oil painting. Subjects for oil paintings at the time period of Rivers' early career were typically reserved for more grandiose visions, (high art). Rivers further connects the subject of shoes to high art by referencing Abstract Expressionism, which had clearly peaked as an established orthodoxy by 1953 when he began painting such subject matter. Ironically, Rivers used the painterly methodology of the abstract expressionists as a vehicle to reintroduce representational subject matter. This helped his peers to follow suit and we can see some of the earliest versions of American Pop art picking up on Rivers use of commercial images embedded in drips and smears. David Joel Executive Director Larry Rivers Foundation C
Staple holes at corners and center edges. Surface dirt.
Larry Rivers American, 1923-2002 Untitled, (Shoes), 1961 Signed Rivers and dated '61 (lr) Oil and graphite on paper mounted to board 12 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (31.11 x 36.19 cm) The subject of shoes, as well as many of the subjects Rivers addressed early on, is an important part of the development of American Pop Art. Among many of his pre-Pop works, Rivers was doing shoes in a manner that clearly distinguished his work from that of Warhol's initial approach to the subject. With Warhol, we see him appropriating a more literal illustration of shoes, but Larry Rivers is directly translating the commercial subject into a source for an oil painting. Subjects for oil paintings at the time period of Rivers' early career were typically reserved for more grandiose visions, (high art). Rivers further connects the subject of shoes to high art by referencing Abstract Expressionism, which had clearly peaked as an established orthodoxy by 1953 when he began painting such subject matter. Ironically, Rivers used the painterly methodology of the abstract expressionists as a vehicle to reintroduce representational subject matter. This helped his peers to follow suit and we can see some of the earliest versions of American Pop art picking up on Rivers use of commercial images embedded in drips and smears. David Joel Executive Director Larry Rivers Foundation C
Staple holes at corners and center edges. Surface dirt.
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