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About Joseph Drapell
- Joseph Drapell, (born March 13, 1940) is a Czech-Canadian abstract painter.
- He emigrated to Canada in 1966, and during 1968-1970 he studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
- At the Cranbrook Academy he met visiting Canadian artist Jack Bush and the American art critic Clement Greenberg, who influenced his work.
- He moved permanently to Toronto and during the period from 1972 through 1974, in Toronto, he developed a technique of applying paint with a broad spreading device attached to a movable support having also been influenced by the American painter Morris Louis.
- He still resides, and has a studio and maintains a private museum in Toronto.
- Drapell began his formal career as an artist when he was 28 and has participated in numerous exhibitions.
- He is a Canadian/Czech artist from the generation after the Painters Eleven and a founding member of the New New Painters.
- He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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