Balcomb Greene, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Balcomb Greene

American painter

Date of Birth: 22-May-1904

Place of Birth: Shelby, New York, United States

Date of Death: 12-Nov-1990

Profession: artist, painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Balcomb Greene (1904–1990) and his wife, artist Gertrude Glass Greene, were heavily involved in political activism to promote mainstream acceptance of abstract art.
They were founding members of the American Abstract Artists organization.
His early style was completely non-objective.
Juan Gris and Piet Mondrian as well as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse influenced his early style.
From the 1940s his work "opened out to the light and space of natural form." He painted landscapes and figure.
"He discerned the pain of a man, and hewed to it integrally from beginning to end….
In his study of the figure he did not stress anatomical shape but rather its intuitive, often conflicting spirit."Balcomb Greene contributed to modernist cause through his writings: "It is actually the artist, and only he, who is equipped for approaching the individual directly.
The abstract artist can approach man through the most immediate of aesthetic experiences, touching below consciousness and the veneer of attitudes, contacting the whole ego rather than the ego on the defensive."