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George Kokines (November 17, 1930 – November 26, 2012) was an American painter, active in Chicago and New York City from the early 1960s through 2012. == Biography == Kokines was an alumnus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His large and colorful abstract expressionist oil paintings earned notice in the early 1960s, especially in Chicago.〔http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-07/news/ct-met-kokines-obit-20121207_1_paintings-george-kokines-morris-barazani〕 In 1962, Kokines won the Art Institute of Chicago Mr and Mrs Frank G. Logan Art Institute Prize at the annual Chicago and Vicinity annual exhibition.〔"Abstract Works Win Top Prize", Chicago Tribune, May, 1962 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abstract_Works_Win_Top_Art_Prizes.jpeg〕〔"It's Art No Matter How you look at It", Chicago tribune, 1962 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:It%27s_Art_no_Matter_How_You_Look_at_It.jpeg〕 Although described as an abstract expressionist, Kokines told an interviewer "All contemporary painting should defy description." 〔"Saga of Art Winner: From Saloon to Salon", Chicago Tribune, June 1962:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saloon_to_salon.jpeg〕 Kokines's paintings from this period were noted for their "fierce movement and polyphonic complexity" and "organic surrealist overtones."〔"Three Top Chicagoans", Chicago Daily News, Nov 11, 1962〕〔"A Tentative Look at LeBrun", Chicago Daily News, 1965〕 Kokines' paintings and drawings were featured in several group and solo shows in Chicago galleries, including the Richard Gray Gallery. His work was also included in the Whitney Museum Annual Contemporary Painting show in 1963.〔"Paintings in the Contemporary Whitney Show", New York Times, Dec 11, 1963〕 Kokines’ paintings became the focus of a local censorship scandal in Chicago when the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center removed his paintings from display after a library visitor complained they were obscene.〔'Library Throws Out Art as 'Suggestive', Chicago Tribune; Dec 7, 1965〕 Others defended the paintings,〔"College Head Backs Artist in library Ban" Chicago Tribune, Dec 8, 1965〕〔Artist Defended in Library Row", Chicago Sun-Times, Dec 9, 1965〕 which were purchased by Hugh Hefner.〔"Hefner Buys Paintings Banned by Library", Chicago Tribune, Dec 9, 1965〕 In the 1980 and 90s, Kokines used textured surfaces out of cement and plaster onto which he painted or scratched images and writing. "Painting is the way of creating a visual writing that stimulates an inner knowing before it can be put into words."〔Andover Gallery, New York City, New York, Feb 1994 exhibition catalogue〕 In the late 1990s, Kokines produced a series of paintings called Etudes, featuring organic plant-like forms in containers painted on top of black and white lithographs of a piano. Among Kokines’s final works is a group of panels based on the events of September 11, 2001, which he witnessed firsthand.〔"A Survivor at Death’s Door", Chicago Tribune, Oct. 16. 2001, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-10-16/features/0110160011_1_world-trade-center-ground-zero-survivors〕 The series was shown together in 2011in Elgin, Illinois.〔"The Disaster Business", http://www.ochbergsociety.org/magazine/2011/08/julia-lieblich-kokines-911/〕 About these paintings, he said, “I wanted a memorial, not an autopsy. I didn’t want to be in the disaster business.” 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Kokines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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