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    Biography of Ronald B. Kitaj

    Ronald B. Kitaj, american painter and graphic artist was born in Cleveland (United States) in 1932. Before studying at the Royal College of Art in London, his first activities make him travel a lot. His cultural horizons will give him an influent position among his contemporaries – he studies with David Hockney and Allen Jones – in particular, postponing his own preference for figuration versus abstraction. His occupation takes place mainly in England where he settles in 1957. Often associated by mistake to English Pop Art artists, Ronald Kitaj likes to point out what he owes to Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn or Francis Bacon. His work offers a very personnal imagery, poetically, historically and iconographically inspired. Part of his work is dedicated to Holocaust. French art of the late 19th century becomes a major source of inspiration after his visit in Paris in 1975. Kitaj, by chosing his own topics and the size of his compositions, inevitably reminds us old masters' spirit. The artist dies in Los Angeles in October 2007.

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Olympics games of...
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La Fabbrica, A life
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Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)

Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
* « Kitaj - The Complete Graphics 1963-1969 », Ed. Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanovre, 1970
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Bibliographic track & more

To read from or about the artist :
* « Kitaj: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels », John Ashbery, Thames & Hudson Publisher, 1983
* « R. B. Kitaj », Marco Livingstone, Ed. Phaidon, 1985
* « First Diasporist Manifesto », Kitaj R. B., Thames & Hudson Publisher, 1989
* « R.B. Kitaj », Richard Morphet, Ed. Rizzoli, New York, 1994
* « Kitaj », Andrew Lambirth, Philip Wilson Publisher, Londres, 2004
* « The Second Diasporist Manifesto », Kitaj R. B., Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007
* « Kitaj », Marco Livingstone, Phaidon Press, 2014
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Art movements

  • + SCHOOL OF LONDON / 1960 / Lucian Freud, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, etc.
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