Idelle Lois Weber (1932 - 2020)

Idelle Lois Weber

Idelle Lois Weber (born Tessie Pasternack) was an American artist most closely aligned with the Pop art and Photorealist movements. During the early 1960s, Weber's work mainly consisted of silhouette paintings against brightly colored, checkerboard backgrounds. Her preferred subjects were anonymous figures engaged in everyday activities. She began making large-scale Plexiglas sculptures in 1965. In the late 1960s, Weber switched from her early Pop aesthetic to Photorealist techniques. Working from photographs and slides of New York City, she made highly detailed paintings of fruit-stands, trash and litter, which would become her dominant themes over the next several years. Weber taught graduate drawing and painting at NYU in the 1970s and would later teach art at Harvard University, the Art Barge in Amagansett, NY and the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. While teaching at Harvard in the 1990s, Weber began working in monotypes and created a series of small black and white works inspired by television coverage of the Gulf War. Moving from small to large scale, the experience working in monotype resulted in a dramatic change in her painting style. In 2000, she began working in collage.

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Date and place of birt:	12 march 1932, Chicago, USA
Date and place of death:	23 march 2020, New York City, USA
Nationality:	USA
Period of activity:	XX, XXI century
Specialization:	Artist, Genre painter, Landscape painter, Painter, Sculptor
Genre:	Cityscape, Genre art, Landscape painting
Art style:	Contemporary art, Photorealism, Pop Art, Realism
Technique:	Acrylic, Collage, Graphite, Monotypе, Oil, Pastel on paper, Tempera, Watercolor
Medium:	плексиглас