{"id":210,"date":"2018-11-30T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T21:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/?p=210"},"modified":"2018-12-05T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:10:19","slug":"r-b-kitaj-survey-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/2018\/11\/30\/r-b-kitaj-survey-9\/","title":{"rendered":"R.B. Kitaj, Survey 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“The Refugees”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kitaj was an American born artist from Cleveland Ohio. He would go on to study at the Vienna Acadamey of Art. Kitaj would go on to study at many artistic institutions, including the Royal College of Art and the Ruskin School.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kitaj\u2019s style is one that could be defined as \u201cpolarizing\u201d to say the least. The general public may have viewed his work as naive, rough, or even unfinished, and they\u2019re not completely wrong in saying that. Kitajs work do resemble underpaintings, but their conditions serve great purpose. The seemingly ragged images exemplify moments in their entirety; capturing the emotion of a instant. He captures what it\u2019s like to really take in your surroundings, where you can only fully interpret parts in full and others with fleeting ability.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“The Man on the Ceiling,” 1989<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHis more complex compositions build on his line work using a montage practice, which he called ‘agitational usage’. Kitaj often depicts disorienting landscapes and impossible 3D constructions, with exaggerated and pliable human forms. He often assumes a detached outsider point of view, in conflict with dominant historical narratives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Juan De La Cruz”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kitaj credited his influence to British pop artists, his work resembling collages in their busy and overlapping nature. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAllusions to political history, art, literature and Jewish identity often recur in his work, mixed together on one canvas to produce a collage effect.\u201d ~Wikipedia.com<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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“The Psychopathology of Every Day Life”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kitaj lived an interesting personal life as a Russo Jewish artist living in the states. Growing up in the WW2 and post war period, there would have been undeniable tensions. He would spend the majority of his life in England and as a merchant seaman in Norway in his teenage years. His first wife would commit suicide in 1969, but would remarry in 1994 in her 40s. Needless to say, in the way of being a \u201ctortured artist,\u201d Kitaj had plenty of material to draw on. He died in 2007, and the coroner would declare the cause as death by suffocation, stating that the artist had suffocated him with a plastic bag over his head. <\/span><\/p>\n

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“The Oak Tree”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In light of his legacy, Kitaj is known as one of the world\u2019s leading draftsmen, often being compared to Edgar Degas. He was taught draughtsmanship by a 3rd generation pupil of Degas, which would explain the resemblance. <\/span><\/p>\n

His style and ability is greatest exemplified by his masterpiece \u201cAutumn of Central Paris\u201d, resembling a semi cubist interpretation of a cafe, showcasing his unique interpretation of distorted figures and settings. <\/span><\/p>\n

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“Self-Portrait After Rembrandt’s Last Self-Portrait\u201d (2004)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

https:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/r-b-kitaj\/the-autumn-of-central-paris<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/artists\/r-b-kitaj-1416<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artist\/r-b-kitaj<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Kitaj was an American born artist from Cleveland Ohio. He would go on to study at the Vienna Acadamey of Art. Kitaj would go on to study at many artistic institutions, including the Royal College of Art and the Ruskin School. Kitaj\u2019s style is one that could be defined as \u201cpolarizing\u201d to say the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-131-res","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/taliarouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}