Angelo Ippolito

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Angelo Ippolito
Born(1922-11-07)7 November 1922
Abstract Expressionism
AwardsTiffany, Lannan, American Foundation
Websiteangeloippolito.com

Angelo Ippolito (7 November 1922 – 29 October 2001) was an American

color field oils on canvas that have been exhibited and collected internationally, as well as for his central role in inaugurating the downtown art scene of postwar New York.[1]

Biography

Ippolito's family immigrated to the United States when he was 9 years old. After serving in the Philippines during World War II, he studied with

University of California at Berkeley (1961–62) and as a professor of art at Michigan State University (1963–71) and Binghamton University (1971-2001). After his death on October 29, 2001 he was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.[5]

Work

Critic

Bertha Schaefer Gallery "a notable event," writing that "his canvases present abstract analogies to a landscape vision, suggesting earth, horizon line and sky; yet the separate realms of land and air are most often fused together in a single coloristic unity." Reviewing his later work, artist-critic Fairfield Porter described him as one of the few abstract artists "who uses brilliant color as his material instead of something to dress the painting up with."[6]

Ippolito's canvases from the later 1960s explored the abstract possibilities of the midwestern U.S. landscape. His former teacher John Ferren remarked that he "could spend a summer in the landscape of Ippolito."[7] In the 1970s his paintings became more expansive and bright-hued, prompting critic Hilton Kramer to write, "the pleasure of color remains his primary concern, and he is a virtuoso in the handling of it. Some of his finest effects, in these new paintings, are achieved when he is juggling bold areas of hot color with an almost reckless abandon."[8] In the following two decades, Ippolito's paintings diverged further from their roots in the landscape to explore atmospheric visions. As he told art historian Kenneth Lindsay in 1974, "When I find the color of the painting I find the form."[9]

Ippolito's work has been exhibited in international venues such as the

Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, The Phillips Collection, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.[10]

References

  1. ^ Angelo Ippolito, 79, an Artist and Professor. The New York Times, 2001-11-07. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  2. ^ Irving Sandler, "Angelo Ippolito: A Retrospective Exhibition," Binghamton University Art Museum, 2003, p. 2.
  3. ^ Irving Sandler, "Angelo Ippolito: A Retrospective Exhibition," Binghamton University Art Museum, 2003, p. 2.
  4. ^ "Angelo Ippolito: Color as Light," ex. cat., Yvette Torres Fine Art, Rockland, Maine, August 3 - September 16, 2018, p. 15.
  5. ^ "Angelo A. Ippolito Obituary (2001) Press & Sun-Bulletin". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  6. ^ Irving Sandler, "Angelo Ippolito: A Retrospective Exhibition," Binghamton University Art Museum, 2003, p. 10.
  7. ^ Irving Sandler, "Angelo Ippolito: A Retrospective Exhibition," Binghamton University Art Museum, 2003, p. 4.
  8. ^ Irving Sandler, "Angelo Ippolito: A Retrospective Exhibition," Binghamton University Art Museum, 2003, p. 16.
  9. ^ Kenneth Lindsay, "Angelo Ippolito: Retrospective," ex. cat., Binghamton University, 1975.
  10. ^ "Angelo Ippolito: Color as Light," ex. cat., Yvette Torres Fine Art, Rockland, Maine, August 3 - September 16, 2018, p. 15.

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