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Age: 86
Profession: Painter
Other Profession(s): Filmmaker, Sculptor
Famous For: Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida (1929–30)
Higher Education: Graduated
About (Profile/Biography):
Ivan Albright is a well-known American painter and artist. Ivan is most known for his deep, dark, and extremely realistic portrayals of human bodies, notably hands and faces, as well as still-life paintings of items like books, fruit, and flowers. He frequently used light and shadow in his paintings, which were much influenced by modern photography and film, to produce dramatic contrasts and strange effects.
Ivan Albright Education: Albright attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before continuing her education at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts.
Ivan Albright Painting:
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1943)
"The Door" (1943)
"The Window" (1943)
Ivan Albright Illustration:
"Things Not Seen" (1930)
"As You Like It" (1933)
"The New Magician" (1938)
Ivan Albright Murals:
"Growth of Industry" (1940)
Ivan Albright Sculpture:
"Hippopotamus" (1954)
Ivan Albright Awards: Throughout his career, he received numerous honours and prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957 and a National Institute of Arts and Letters award in 1946.
Ivan Albright Unknown Facts: He fought in World War I, and afterward received a TB diagnosis, which he attributed to having been exposed to mustard gas.
Ivan Albright Legacy: Ivan was a pioneer of the American magic realism movement, which fused traditional realism with fantastical and symbolic aspects, and one of its last practitioners. Albright's contributions to the American magic realism movement and his peculiar writing style is still considered as pioneering and one-of-a-kind.
Ivan Albright Death: On November 18, 1983, Ivan Albright passed away in Barrington, Illinois.
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