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Walter Kuhlman Bay Area Figurative #1125530

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Walter Kuhlman Bay Area Figurative #1125530
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Bay Area Figurative!!!!</em></td>
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While Walter Kuhlman's work has evolved from the dynamic, purely abstract canvases of the the 40's and 50's to the more atmospheric work which has engaged him since then, a similar balance of color, space and emotion remains. However, unlike any other Bay Area figurative painters who emerged in the 50's and began to depict the human figure in an abstract expressionist context, Kuhlman not only continued to use paint and color expressively, he also included a psychological aspect.
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Primarily a painter, Kuhlman has devoted much of the last fifteen years to his work with monotypes. Integrating the abstract expressionist vocabulary with his own European heritage and upbringing, mythological, literary and psychological themes suggest themselves. Kuhlman's images seem to spontaneously emerge from fields of color. The end result is often dramatic, magical and sometimes surreal ó an effect which Alexander Fried, a former San Francisco Examiner art critic, labeled as early as 1964 "semi-abstract mysticism." Perhaps, the strongest quality of Kuhlman's work is his ability to project the feeling of a particular space or time.
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Born in 1918 to Danish immigrants in St. Paul, Minnesota, Walter Kuhlman graduated from the University of Minnesota and studied with Cameron Booth at the St. Paul School of Art. After serving with the Navy during the Second World War, Kuhlman came to settle in the Bay Area. Attending the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1985</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>





<tr><td>Title:Walter Kuhlman Bay Area Figurative</td></tr>

<tr><td>Materials:Monotype</td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:Ben Lomond, California.</td></tr>
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