Original Arnold Wood Painting: Carrefour
Item Number: 211
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $375
Online Close: Dec 7, 2009 9:00 PM CST
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Description
Compared to Roualt, Matisse, Fauve and Van Dongen, and hailed as "an artist's artist … one who paints from an inner pathos that is contagious..."
Showing talent and creativity at an early age, Arnold Wood studied at Central Technical Arts in Toronto and was selected by the Junior Art for Peace Exchange Program co-sponsored by Canada and Russia during the height of the Cold War. He went on to study at Rochdale College in Indiana and the Ontario College of Art, then toured England, France, Italy, Austria, German and Russia.
Critics from the publications Artspeak, Cover and Manhattan Arts called Wood's work "expressive, texturally rich, complex", as "reality reconstructed, molded and remodeled" and noted that he "works in the style of great masters".
Wood was among the great many classical writers and fine and performing artists who struggled to overcome bipolar disorder. According to Jack Miller, an early champion of Wood at the Morin-Miller Galleries [NYC] and a major collector of his work, it informed Wood's style [as in his Bus Series] and themes, particularly the harlequins and columbines.
In the last 20 years of his life he was at the peak of his creativity, exhibiting over 230 paintings at prestigious galleries in New York City alone. He was also featured in exhibitions in Toronto, Quebec, Philadelphia and is in collections and museums in the US, Canada, France, Scotland, England and Japan.
About the artist's style--The New York City neo-Expressionist movement was a constant attraction to Wood in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but the European post-Expressionists never allowed him to wander further in want of style.
Lauren Otis in Artspeak pegged Arnold Wood's spatial distortions, robust coloration and subject matter as "seeming to align Wood and the German Expressionism of the 1930s."
14" x 18", Acrylic, framed