Jack Gage (1946) - Affection

Jack GAGE (1946)

Affection - Oil on canvas. A splendid work, ready to hang.

Dimensions without frame: 60 cm x 90 cm
Signed bottom right.

Unique at auction with top prices.

Jack Gage is an American artist. He was largely inspired by the sixties. Artistically, the decade began with the twin movements of Pop and Minimalism that emerged side by side. On the one hand, Pop defended the imagery of mainstream and mass media, and of products and consumerism. The artwork by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann and Claes Oldenburg is inspired by the popular culture of the rapidly developing capitalism of the United States, with advertising, comics and ideas about celebrity culture at its core as visual cues. A parallel movement developed on the West Coast in California—a kind that also related to language in art, and is seen as the first flowering of conceptual art. Minimalism developed a lexicon of form without external references, solely focused on line, color and geometric shape as important components of both painting and sculpture. The leading figures of minimalism were Frank Stella, Donald Judd and Agnes Martin. Pop Art was a prominent offshoot of minimalism, a discipline that gained fame through the work of artists such as Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley. Worldwide, many artistic movements resonated with the creative concerns of the earlier movements, often with regional fortes and nuances. In Italy, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni established Spatialism, and in Germany the Zero group under the leadership of Günter Uecker embraced similar ideas. The influential school of existentialist philosophy was an important source of creativity for artists, with figures like Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti worldwide known for their distinctive approaches to the human form and the anxiety associated with the human condition. (Artland.com)

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