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LOESER FEITELSON - Biographical data (1958)

I was born in Savannah, George, 1898; grew up in New York City. Before the age of six I received my first lessons in figure-drawing from my father, we had talent and an enthusiastic interest in art. From the beginning I was unusually exposed to works and reproductions of the masters, and to illustrations in the periodicals which included contemporary art activity. It was my father who taught me the analytical approach to art; this made an indelible impression which has deeply affected my work work, and undoubtedly led to my lifelong interest in the theory of art, and teaching and lecturing on art.

I began painting "seriously" over forty years ago - immediately after seeing the famous "Armory Show" in 1913. The unprecedented use of shifting contours in Cezanne and the kinetic paintings by the Italian Futurists and Marcel Duchamp impressed me deeply. The impact of this experience excited my imagination as to the new possibilities of kinetic organization. Until then my whole concern was with organized form-articulations as developed by Michelangelo, "interetto and Veronese. My efforts with "kinetic-organizations" of fragmented, shifting contours, supported by dynamic color, lasted until 1920 or 1921; renewed interest in this kind of organization, in a more monumental form, has again found expression in some of my work of the past two years (1957-58).

From 1922 to about 1932, my early interest in Renaissance art reasserted itself in a series of "Neo-classic" paintings (first shown in New York at the Daniel Gallery in 1924 or '25).

From the early'30s to the early '40s, my concern with organized movement found expression in my Postsurrealist efforts to organize, through time-sequence, the psychological properties in my work. The "meaning"