Larry Poons

Larry Poons

Lawrence Poons, better known as Larry Poons, is an abstract painter who was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1937. He studied from 1955 to 1957 at the New England Conservatory of Music, with the intent of becoming a professional musician. In 1959, he enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

He rose to prominence in the 1960s with paintings of circles and ovals on solid—often brilliantly colored—backgrounds. These paintings conveyed a sense of movement, and were categorized as op art. Although he exhibited with optical artists in 1965, by 1966 he had moved away from the optical art towards looser and more painterly abstract canvases. His work is associated with Op Art, Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism.

He currently resides primarily in New York City, but also maintains a studio in upstate New York.

References

* Griffith, Laura Susan, "Larry Poons and the Evolution of Stylistic Diametrics", Cleveland, Ohio, Department of Art History, Case Western Reserve University, 1983.
* Moffett, Kenworth, "Larry Poons, Paintings, 1971-1981", Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1981.

External links

* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/poons_lawrence.html Larry Poons in ArtCyclopedia]
* [http://www.artnet.com/awc/larry-poons.html artnet online catalog, retrieved May 9, 2008]


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