David Park (1911-1960)

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Let me lay out the Park, while Mr Igor Gurieva no - oh, I have no doubt that he will come and park my obolet mud, but let this wonderful artist foe at least a little unspotted!

I must say that it is not anticipated that the work to find a park on the Internet will be so difficult. I apologize for the terrible quality of the reproductions, no choice, I took everything that could be found.

Son of a pastor, Unitarians, his childhood and adolescence spent Park in Boston. An important role in his life played a sister of his father: a painter herself, she noticed little David's talent and supported his desire to engage in the art (for a long time he hesitated mezhdts music - he played the piano - and painting), and besides, she has tried to resolve the conflict boy with his family, alarmed by his very poor results in school. In the end, his father accepted the fact that his son - "not all", and their relationship improved, but for a long time later, Park wrote about his father: "Father, our ilk in Boston" ...

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When the park failed examinations for bachelor, his aunt invited the family to take him to park himself on the West Coast. First he enrolled in Art College Otis. After the end of the semester Park felt no desire to return to Boston, and my aunt invited him to enter the University of California. Park moved to San Francisco and enrolled in the painting department. His gregarious nature helped him to acquire friends. Livelihood he procured, working tesatelem stone with sculptor Ralph Stekpola. One of the first of his paintings were the frescoes dL administrative buildings Saint Francisco, executed in the typical style of the 1930's.
But Park, who had by then married and fathered two daughters, wanted to find a stable situation. Again helped aunt: she found him the post of lecturer at the Boston girls' school, and the family of the artist for four years she moved to Boston. Teaching liked the park, but life in Boston was too quiet, and he and his wife decided to return to Kpliforniyu and try there luck.

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At this time the war began, and the Park mobilized. Whole period of the war he worked in the company Compagnie General Cable in Emeriville. But gradually, he established contacts with the artistic environment and began to teach at the half-rate at the Art Museum of San Francisco and at the Higher Art School of California.

Park and his colleagues on the teaching - Hessel Smith, Richard Dibenkorna and Elmer Bischoff attracted abstract expressionism. Typically, after work, they gathered in the studio park located in the attic of the school building, and discuss their work.
"I was interested in the high abstract ideas, such as vitality, energy, depth and warmth. These ideas became my gods, and still remain their. I forced myself to work so that as soon as possible rather symbolize these ideas. Now I realize that my work in those days did not express them even approximately. "

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At the end of 1949 the park has collected almost all the work made over the last four years, and took them to the city dump. This rejection of abstract expressionism (but not from the "action painting") was the first step on the park towards a very personal style - he knew that this style requires a return to figurative painting, to make the painting "The continuation of the human eizni.
The reaction of his colleagues in his early figurative work has been rather negative - they thought it was a step back, that Park "funked" does not stand the strain (see one of the works of Park, Dibenkorn exclaimed: "Lord, what happened to David!") .
At the same time having financial difficulties - after the dismissal Hessela Smith Bischoff and Park resigned in protest. He began casual work - he drew posters for stores, etc., but his wife agreed that he should not waste his talent on such nonsense, and went to work herself, which enabled him to devote himself to painting.
Soon Dibenkorn and Bischoff fell under his influence, learned his ideas. Henceforth, these three artists are inextricably linked.

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In 1955 the park was taken by a teacher in the University of California, which corrected his financial situation. He continued to write - without nature, but from memory, he possessed an amazing ability to observation: "I realized that the answer to the question" how to write? "In the painting gives the question" what to write? "".
In 1959 he underwent surgery related to the disease back, causing him constant pain. Not being able to write after the surgery, he made many drawings. Once he is out of paper, and his wife gave him a roll of paper that he cut it into pieces. But he did like a roll of 30 pictures. This scroll was bought and donated to the university, where he vystavelen in Tsellerbah Hall.

In 1960, the second operation was performed, which revealed cancer in the final stage. Park, from which the diagnosis is not hidden, worked until the last day.