Thursday, January 18, 2018

Artist of the day, January 18: Allan D’Arcangelo, American painter (Pop art)

Allan D'Arcangelo (1930-1998)was an American artist and printmaker, best known for his paintings of highways and road signs that border on pop art and minimalism, precisionism and hard-edge painting, and also surrealism. His subject matter is distinctly American and evokes, at times, a cautious outlook on the future of this country.

Often depicted from the driver’s perspective, D’Arcangelo’s paintings incorporate simplified, flat color planes and fragmented geometric forms, superimposing cropped road signs, forms resembling broken glass, and vague highway imagery over two-dimensional, endlessly rolling landscapes. D’Arcangelo always maintained a strong fascination with industrial imagery and scenery, and is considered one of the earliest American Pop artists.

It has been said that D'Arcangelo "has the ability to defy, yet document, spatial relationships at the same time." The recipient of fifteen awards and commissions, D'Arcangelo has had frequent one-man shows, many of which traveled to prominent museums throughout America. His work appears in more than thirty public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Detroit Institute of Art, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

His reputation as a Pop artist was established by his first New York one-man exhibition in 1963 where he showed his first acrylic paintings of the American highway and industrial landscape. Such large-scale canvases visually transported the viewer through a time sequence, as if traveling along a highway, catching glimpses of trees, dividing lines, signs and route markers. In subsequent works D’Arcangelo continued to examine the American landscape both as directly experienced and in the form of generalized contemporary symbols. An essentially flat and impersonal style allowed him to suggest an illusionistic space without sacrificing the viewer’s consciousness of the picture plane.

© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Allan D'Arcangelo/D’Arcangelo Family Partnership/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.



 Mr Allan D’Arcangelo

1962, American Madonna no.1

1962, Head Gasket #2

1962, Marilyn

1962, My Uncle Whiskey's Bad Habit

1963, Here and Now

1963, Madonna and Child

1963, Smoke Dream #1

1963, Smoke Dream #2

1963, The Rheingold Girls,

1964, 4 squares

1964, Untitled no.77

1964, White Highway

1964-65, Overpass

1965, Double Overpass

1965, Highway

1965, Paris Review

1966, proposition-25

1967, Danger

1967, Dipped

1967, Landscape

1967, Landscape

1968, Abstract

1968, Abstraction

1968, Landscape "Y"

1968, Landscape bars #4

1968, Landscape BB (74)

1968, Landscape,

1968, Landscape,

1968, untitled

1969, April

1969, June moon 1963

1969, Landscape I

1969, Untitled

1970, Peace

1970, Untitled

1971, Constellation I

1971, Constellation II

1971, Constellation III

1971, Constellation IV

1972, Olympic Games Poster Munich

1973, Alignment

1973, Ohne Titel

1973, Watertower 2

1973, Watertower

1974-82, Without Sound

1975, Pegasus Landscape

1976-77, Pike

1977, The Holy Family

1978, Resonance

1978, US Highway #1

1979, Bridge

1979, Caves

1979, Web

1980, Smoke Dreams

The Wedding

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