David Park (1911-1960)

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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. "