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Peter Saul (born August 16, 1934) is an American painter. His work has connections with Pop Art, Surrealism, and Expressionism. His early use of pop culture cartoon references in the late 1950s and very early 1960s situates him as one of the fathers of the Pop Art movement.[1] He realised about 800 paintings during his career.[2]
Early life and work
Peter Saul was born in San Francisco, California,
Art critic John Yau wrote of Saul's work in The Brooklyn Rail:
His orchestration of the intertwining, overlapping, cartoony figures could only have been done by someone who absorbed the all-over compositions of the Abstract Expressionists. He juices the painting up to a fever pitch with a jarring, manic palette of bright reds, blues, and greens. And then there are the details that one finds within the painting—the mayhem and violence, all precisely and lovingly depicted with hair-raising glee.[5]
Later life and work
In 1964 Saul returned to the United States and settled in the San Francisco Bay Area where he lived for eleven years.
Saul spent the 1980s and 90s in Austin, Texas where he taught at the University of Texas. His former students include Erik Parker[7] and Willy Bo Richardson.[8] During this time his content diversified and his style focused on ever more glamorous treatment of “low” subjects, heavily influenced by 19th-century painting. The critic Holland Cotter in a 2008 New York Times review of a retrospective of his work called Saul "a classic artist’s artist, one of our few important practicing history painters and a serial offender in violation of good taste".[9] Saul’s work has often been independent of specific art movements and thus he "has spent a lifetime avoiding easy critical definition".[10] In 2020, Peter Saul had his first New York museum survey at the New Museum.[11]
Exhibitions
- 1981: Peter Saul on Politics, Art, and Mortality, Madison Art Center (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art), Wisconsin
- 2016: Peter Saul: You Better Call Saul, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow.[12]
- 2017: Survey exhibition, Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt;[13] it later traveled to Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.[14]
- 2019: Retrospective exhibition, Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France[citation needed]
- 2020: Almine Rech, Paris[citation needed]
- 2020: Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment, The New Museum, New York, New York.[15]
Recognition
In 2010 Saul was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Iconography
Yes that's Saul, Folks[16] is a portrait of Peter Saul by his friend, the peruvian painter Herman Braun-Vega.
References
- ^ "Peter Saul | View of San Francisco, Number 2". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ “Peter Saul interview with Irving Sandler and Phong Bui,” The Brooklyn Rail, Dec. 2010, Jan. 2011, p.20
- ^ "Peter Saul | View of San Francisco, Number 2". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ Newsweek, November 9, 1964
- ^ Yau, John (January 2011). "Peter Saul: Fifty Years of Painting". The Brooklyn Rail.
- ^ "Peter Saul | View of San Francisco, Number 2". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ Smith, Andy (June 3, 2019). "Erik Parker, Peter Saul Show at NANZUKA". hi-fructose.
- ^ "Willy Bo Richardson: Artist Profile". Santa Fe Art Studio. February 17, 2011.
- ^ Holland Cotter, “Peter Saul Manifesto,” August 15, 2008, New York Times
- ^ Christian Viveros-Fauné, “Peter Saul’s Thrilling Tastelessness,” The Village Voice, Dec. 8, 2010
- ^ Schjeldahl, Peter (February 17, 2020). "The In-Your-Face Paintings of Peter Saul". The New Yorker.
- ^ "Peter Saul: You Better Call Saul - Exhibition View". tatintsian.com. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
- ^ "Peter Saul". Schirn Kunsthalle. 2017-10-24.
- ^ "Diechtorhallen Hamburg Peter Saul". Diechtorhallen Hamburg. 2017-10-24.
- ^ "Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment". newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
- ^ Braun-Vega, Herman (2002). "Yes that's Saul, Folks" (acrylic on canvas, 160 x 130 cm).
Further reading
“Peter Saul. You Better Call Saul” Cat. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia (2016),
“Peter Saul” Exh. Cat. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (Hatje Cantz, 2008),
“Peter Saul,” Cat. Musée de L’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables D’Olonne (Somogy Editions D’Art, 1999)
External links
- Peter Saul at Venus Over Manhattan (https://www.venusovermanhattan.com/artists/peter-saul)
- Peter Saul at Michael Werner Gallery (http://michaelwerner.com/artist/peter-saul/works)
- Peter Saul in conversation with Phong Bui and Irving Sandler Brooklyn Rail
- Peter Saul at di Rosa (http://www.dirosaart.org/collection-in-focusrelax-in-electric-chair-peter-saul-at-di-rosa/)
- Peter Saul at the New Museum (https://www.marylynnbuchanan.com/blog/peter-saul-at-the-new-museum-2020)