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Article: Obsessive congregations: Alfonso Ossorio drew upon Surrealism, Art Brut, Abstract Expressionism, folk art and collage for the paintings, sculptures and assemblages recently shown in a 50-year survey.
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- Art in America
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- February 1, 2003
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Although he moved from Manila to the U.S. at the age of 14, attended Harvard University and served in the U.S. Army, Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990) produced a body of work that remained consistently international in scope. His early work evinced a fascination with Surrealism. Even as he fell under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, he continued to draw on such sources as the Catholic folk art of his native Philippines, German woodcuts, the Spanish Baroque, and modernist practices of Informel and assemblage. "Alfonso Ossorio: Horror Vacui," a 50-year survey at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (with a smaller concurrent exhibition at the Ossorio Foundation in Southampton, ...
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Dictionary definition: Art Brut
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art;
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...Art Brut (French: ‘Raw Art'). Term ... 1923, but he did not begin collecting Art Brut until 1945, following a visit to Switzerland ... good deal of his energies to promoting Art Brut, through writing, lecturing, and organizing ...
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