American

Theodore Stamos

U.S. b. 1922
Long Island Sounds 61.1027

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Abstract art stresses the re-presentation of something distilled or 'abstracted' from the appearance or experience of the real world. It promotes art that is free from representational qualities. In Long Island Sounds Stamos gives us an abstracted image of the vibrations caused by foghorns on the water in Long Island Sound. Stamos was a precocious younger member of the Abstract Expressionists in New York in the late 1940s and 1950s. Born in New York to Greek immigrant parents, he won a scholarship to the American Artists School in New York when he was only fourteen. He studied painting and traveled to Europe to study and was influenced as many other Abstract Expressionists were, by the Surrealist movement. Stamos found inspiration in natural forms and mythological symbols. He taught for many years at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and the Art Students League in New York.

 

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