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Joseph DrapellFlute - expressive, neutral pastels, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas1981
1981
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This compelling abstract painting by Canadian artist Joseph Drapell is considered an important work as it debuted at the artist’s groundbreaking solo exhibition at the renowned Thomas Segal Gallery in Boston, Mass. Drapell’s signature style in blue-gray, moss green, terracotta, pale blue, deep red, and white is evident here.
Drapell is known for his innovation and skill in using trowels, serrated blades and his fingers to achieve remarkable texture and depth in his work.
“In terms of real painting innovation, I admired the work of Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Van Hoffman, Morris Louis, and Canadian artist Jack Bush. It took me 50 years or so to develop my own art, to contribute to the chain of the art of painting.” Joseph Drapell
“Drapell has become a towering figure. He stands out as one of the great masters of our age.” Kenworth W. Moffett, Art Curator
Joseph Drapell was born in Czechoslovakia in 1940. He emigrated to Canada in the mid-1960s in search of Western freedom. Drapell studied art at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Inspired by the abstract paintings of Morris Louis, he experimented with different techniques to apply wide swaths of paint in thick layers. In the 1990’s he was a founding member of a group of artists called the New New Painters devoted to exhibiting advanced art internationally. Drapell is a member of the Royal Academy of Art. His works are held in national and international collections—both private and public including the Guggenheim, the British Museum and the National Gallery in Prague, among others. The artist divides his time between Toronto and a beloved island retreat in Georgian Bay.
- Creator:Joseph Drapell (1940, German)
- Creation Year:1981
- Dimensions:Height: 50.5 in (128.27 cm)Width: 50.5 in (128.27 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Bloomfield, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU29114041862
Joseph Drapell
Joseph Drapell was born into the German- (and later Soviet-) occupied small town of Humpolec (near Prague) in 1940. His parents brought up their three boys not to believe in the official propaganda of the occupying regimes. Like the Czech novelist Milan Kundera, Drapell felt that life was elsewhere. Drapell escaped his birth country at his first opportunity at the age of twenty-five in order to develop his art in the free West. He landed in Halifax in 1966, grateful to Canada for accepting him. Drapell adopted an island (B-109) in Georgian Bay as his new spiritual home. The island has inspired (directly or indirectly) all his mature artistic developments to date. Drapell's aim was to contribute to the art of painting, rather than to merely make a living as an artist. Between 1968 and 1970, he studied under various visiting artists and lecturers at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. This is where he first started to develop his compression technique as a response to the paintings of Morris Louis. He settled in Toronto in 1970. Drapell walked the streets of New York with a roll of large paintings, until he was discovered by the Robert Elkon Gallery on Madison Avenue. After three exhibitions there (and several in Toronto where he was discovered by Jared Sable of the Dunkelman Gallery), Drapell achieved his first artistic breakthrough in 1974 with the Great Spirit Paintings. Joseph divides his time between Toronto and Georgian Bay (Lake Huron).
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