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George SEGAL

Native placeNew York, USA
Birth1924
Dead placeSouth Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Died2000

Biography

George Segal was born in New York. He studied at New York University and, through his teacher Baziotes, came into contact with the artists of Abstract Expressionism. He met Kaprow, the originator of “Happenings,” in the early 1950s and held his first one-man show as an Expressionist painter. In addition to painting, he experimented with plaster sculptures in the latter half of the 1950s, and at the beginning of the 1960s he encountered medical plaster bandages, using them to develop the “outside casting” method. He displayed a work molded directly from a human body in the 1962 exhibition The New Realists, which played a key role in bringing Pop Art to public attention. The following year, he was selected to participate in the São Paulo Biennial as a sculptor. From 1971 onward, while continuing to address social themes, he adopted a new casting technique that enabled him to render finer detail and broadened his expressive range by adding color to his figures.

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    Portrait of Robert and Ethel Scull
    Artist：ジョージ・シーガル　George SEGAL
    Date：1965
    Medium：plaster cast oil on canvas, plaster; wood chair with cloth
    Classification：Sculptures
    Accession Number：FS199400001000

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