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Balcomb Greene
American painter
Balcomb Greene (1904–1990) was an American artist and teacher. He and his wife, artist Gertrude Glass Greene, were heavily involved in political activism to promote mainstream acceptance of abstract art and were founding members of the American Abstract Artists organization.[1][2][3] His early style was completely non-objective.
Specifically, Balcomb Greene's “Memory Forms” (), a stark arrangement of shapes on a horizontally split canvas of black and green.
Juan Gris and Piet Mondrian as well as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse influenced his early style.[4] 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."[5]
Balcomb Greene contributed to modernist cause through his writings: "It is actually the artist, and only he, who is equipped for approaching the individual