Jay De Feo's Forgotten Roses: The Wise and Foolish Virgins

in 2012–2013 the Whitney Museum of American Art will feature a retrospective exhibition of Jay De Feo's works. In view of this, it should be noted that two of her lesser-known monumental paintings ...

Materiality and atmosphere. Two American beat artists painting Europe

The article discusses how European painting heavily influenced two American Beat painters in the post war years. Post-war American painting was often concerned with breaking away from traditional iconography and style, but Jay DeFeo and Joan Brown chose to engage with European traditional painting. Both artists travelled to Europe early in their careers and both declare an intense interest in European painters, paintings, and architecture. In Brown’s case particularly the works of Goya, Velazquez, and Rembrandt become scrutinized and remodeled in her pasty abstract style. De Feo, on her hand, states a particular interest in how the European cities’ distinct colors, lights and textures inspi…

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