ShareFacebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, Email Print Arthur Pinajian: number 7 after Da Vinci by admin 11 March, 2022, 12:42 pm 0 Comments March/April 2022 59During the American Depression, the Golden Age of Comics, Arthur Pinajian fashioned comic strips with strips such as ‘Hooded Justice’, ‘Invisible Justice’, ‘Madam Fatal’ and ‘Reynolds of the Mounted’. In the 1950s he worked on Western stories for Atlas/Marvel. The while he drew and painted landscapes and fgures in an abstract Expressionism in obscurity. He eschewed public approbation in-the 1950s and 1960s when the New York Art world was Pollock, de Kooning, Kline, and Rothko – largely holed up in Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1959 Guggenheim Museum. As a result, 50 years of extraordinary abstract landscapes and fgurative paintings were found in the garage and attic of the house he lived in with his sister on Long Island outside New York when he died aged 85 in 1999. His disputed instructions for the works to be taken to the town dump in Bellport were thwarted in a Arthur Pinajian: number 7 after Da VinciBy Tony LowesCULTURElast-minute 2008 reprieve when the buyer of the cottage investigated the bundles of paintings and brought them to the attention of the art world. In 2013, ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ featured the Pinajian discovery of thousands of paintings “rescued from a Dumpster” as “the unlikely discovery that has rocked the art world”. In August 2015 the discovery of his work was ranked among the ten biggest accidental art discoveries of all time, falling in at Number Seven, after Goya, Da Vinci and Renoir. A master of structural colour, his works refects the soul of a fawed, yet brilliant, artistic genius. They fre us up. Early work: comicstrip ShareFacebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, Email See more Previous article Donkeys and Lions led by Lyons Back All Entries Next article Haughey: Conor Lenihan reviews the well-written, but unfortunately authorized, biography of the disgraced former Taoiseach
