列昂·伯克威茨(Leon Berkowitz)
艺术家: 列昂·伯克威茨
生于: 1911；费城，宾夕法尼亚，美国
卒于: 1987；1987
国籍: 美国
流派: 画后抽象
领域: 绘画
出生于费城，Leon Berkowitz最著名的华盛顿画家，在这个城市度过了四十多年。伯克维茨就读于宾夕法尼亚大学、纽约艺术学生联盟、巴黎、佛罗伦萨和墨西哥城。二战期间，他在军队服役，驻扎在弗吉尼亚州，1945年，在服完兵役后，他搬到华盛顿特区。他在华盛顿的高中绘画和教学了十多年的艺术，后来在1969年，他在科科伦美术馆的艺术学院担任主席。绘画系的。他继续在那里教了将近20年，直到1987年去世。
1945年，诗人艾拉·福克斯·伯克维茨和他的第一任妻子，莱昂·伯克维茨建立了华盛顿艺术工作室中心。这个中心成了这个城市的文化催化剂，汇集了表演和视觉艺术的领导人，包括画家莫里斯·路易斯、肯尼斯·诺兰德和吉恩·戴维斯，他们后来将成为华盛顿色彩学校集团的知名创始人。研讨中心于1956年关闭，伯克维茨和他的妻子接下来的十年大部分时间都在国外旅行和生活，主要是在西班牙和威尔士。正是在华盛顿休假期间，他的绘画转向了新的方向，而这幅晚期的作品是他最著名的。
到了20世纪70年代，伯克维茨的绘画变得完全抽象，充满了色彩和光的迷雾。虽然他经常与色彩派画家联系在一起，但他坚决否认这种联系，而是断言他漂浮的色彩洗礼带来了光，并通过光，带来了一种精神存在。而且，实际上，用来给画布上色的强烈的白色地面会发出光线，产生一种明亮的、色彩斑斓的大气效果。在1976年菲利普斯收藏馆举办的一次作品展览会上，他在发言中说：“我正在努力发现光线的脸红和光线中的颜色；当我们观察而不是观察颜色时，我们看到的深度。
Artist :Leon Berkowitz
Additional Name :Leon Berkowitz
Born : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died :1987
Nationality :American
Art Movement :Post-Painterly Abstraction
Born in Philadelphia, Leon Berkowitz is best known as a Washington painter, having spent more than forty years in this city. Berkowitz studied at the University of Pennsylvania, the Art Students League in New York, and in Paris, Florence, and Mexico City. During World War II he was in the Army, stationed in Virginia, and in 1945, after completing his military service, he moved to Washington, D.C. He painted and taught art for more than ten years in D.C. high schools and later, in 1969, at The Corcoran Gallery’s School of Art, where he was chairman of the painting department. He continued to teach there for almost twenty years, until his death in 1987.
With his first wife, the poet Ira Fox Berkowitz, Leon Berkowitz established the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts in 1945. This Center became a cultural catalyst in the city, bringing together leaders in both the performing and visual arts, including painters such as Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Gene Davis, who would later become well-known founders of the Washington Color School group. The Workshop Center closed in 1956, and Berkowitz and his wife spent much of the next decade traveling and living abroad, primarily in Spain and Wales. It was during this sabbatical from his life in Washington that his painting took a new direction, and it is this late work for which he is best known.
By the 1970s, Berkowitz’s paintings had become completely abstract, suffused with mists of color and light. Though he was often associated with the Color School painters, he vigorously denied that connection, asserting instead that his floating washes of color carried light, and through light, a spiritual presence. And, indeed, the intense white ground used to prime his canvases radiates light, creating a luminous, color-drenched atmospheric effect. In a statement for an exhibition of his work at The Phillips Collection in 1976 he said, “I am endeavoring to find that blush of light over light and the color within the light; the depths through which we see when we look into and not at color.”
