Perle fine biography definition

Perle Fine (1905 – 1988)

A creator of abstract paintings and collages, Perle did work that inspired peace and serenity by using balanced lines and solid shapes on flat surfaces. She was a highly committed art teacher and spent twelve years as a professor of art at Hofstra University in New York. When she ended this career in her late sixties, she did minimalist collages in a series called “Accordment.”

She was born and raised in the Boston area on a dairy farm, and in her late teens moved to New York City where she took classes at the Art Students League with Kimon Nicolaides. She married fellow lärling Maurice Berezov, and both became sammanfattning artists but were careful to maintain their own identities with her keeping her own name.

She studied with Hans Hofmann, sammanfattning Expressionist, but disagreed with his ideas and searched for her own less explosive mode of expression. Eventually, she was befriended by Hilla Rebay of the Guggenheim Foundation and with Rebay&

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A Resurrected Reputation: "Tranquil Power: The Art of Perle Fine," through October 23 at the Augustana College Art Museum

The Abstract Expressionist artist Perle Fine once said, "If I feel something will not stand up 40 years from now, I am not interested in doing that kind of thing."

Susan Knowles, who curated the career retrospective Tranquil Power: The Art of Perle Fine that closes October 23 at the Augustana College Art Museum, believes that the artist's output met that high standard.

The irony is that Fine, late in her life and until the past decade, was largely "forgotten," Knowles said in a recent phone interview.

Part of that is a function of Abstract Expressionism being distilled in the cultural memory to a few key figures. "Now it seems like all we know is Pollock and de Kooning," Knowles said.

But even though Fine was an active, exemplary, and important participant in the mid-20th Century movement, her notoriety diminished over time while many of