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Article: Charles Seliger, 83; painted jewels of imaginary nature Abstract expressionist painter Charles Seliger, 83
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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NEW YORK - Charles Seliger, whose small-scale, jewel-like
paintings of imaginary natural forms made him the most idiosyncratic
of the first- generation Abstract Expressionists, died in Manhattan
Oct. 1. He was 83 and lived in Westchester County.
The cause was a stroke, said his son Robert.
While fellow artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning
created high drama with drips and bravura brushwork on billboard-
size canvases, Mr. Seliger conjured his own private worlds on
canvases and Masonite boards that rarely exceeded the dimensions of
a cafeteria tray.
Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of
automatism, the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach
deep ...