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Karel Appel Sam Francis Paul Jenkins Nicholas Krushenik Reuben Nakian Norman Bluhm Larry Rivers Julian Stanczak Jiro Takamatsu Antoni Tapies Sofu Teshigahara Victor Vasarely Andy Warhol Henry Moore Marino Marini Jean-Paul Riopelle Fernand Leger Mark Wiener Roberto Matta John Matos |
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| (1923 - August 14, 2002) was a Jewish American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, Long Island and Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Larry Rivers was born in the Bronx, New York as Yitzrok Loiza Grossberg. He changed his name to Larry Rivers in 1940, after being introduced as ""Larry Rivers and the Mudcats"" at a local New York City pub. From 1940-45 he worked as a jazz saxophonist in New York City, and he studied at the Juilliard School of Music in 1945-46, along with Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, he remained friends with Davis until Davis's death in 1996. Rivers is considered by many scholars the ""Grandfather"" of pop art, because he was the first artist to really merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction. Rivers took up painting in 1945 and studied at the Hans Hofmann School from 1947-48, and then at New York University. He was a pop artist of the New York School, reproducing everyday objects of American popular culture as art. | ||||||
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