Paul Jenkins

yer: Kansas City, Missouri

Doğmuş: 1923

Ölüm: 2012

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Paul Jenkins (July 12, 1923 – June 9, 2012) was an American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri and studied at the Art Students League of New York with Yasuo Kuniyoshi for four years. In 1953, he traveled to Europe, working for three months in Taormina in Sicily before settling in Paris, France. From 1955 on, the artist shared his time between New York and Paris. Jenkins achieved prominence both in New York and Europe for his early abstractions. He was known for his use of flowing paints, pouring pigment in streams of various thicknesses, with white linear overlays. He began to preface the titles of his works with the word 'Phenomena' followed by a key word or phrase, influenced by Goethe’s color theories. In 1964, he implemented an invitation by Jiro Yoshihara to work with Gutai in Osaka.