John Connell

John Connell ( born 1940 in Atlanta, Georgia; † 27 September 2009 in Mariaville, Maine) was an American contemporary artists. His works include sculpture, painting, and writing Zeichnerei.

Connell attended Brown University in Providence, RI (1958-1960), the Art Students League, NY (1960-1961) and the New York University ( 1962), where he learned the nature of the Chinese Zeichnerei. His first exhibition was held in New York in 1962.

In the mid-sixties he moved to California, where he worked as a designer for the San Francisco Mime Troupe. In the seventies, eighties, and nineties, he worked mainly in the southwestern United States, where he made large murals and exhibited in New Mexico's most prestigious art galleries. John Connell was part of the Santa Fe group of artists " Nerve " and became renowned for his great works of art. He is renowned particularly for his drawings. Some of them are made of charcoal and spray paint and can be up to 6 meters high and 9 meters wide.

John Connell used plaster in the seventies and eighties and later moved to tar, paper and wax for the great symbolic sculptures. For his work he also used bronze, cement, wood, wire mesh and for the objects made ​​of paper, occasionally elements of collagen. At the beginning of the eighties he renounced mostly on commercial paints and began making his own, which he produced from iron oxide and pigments. In later paintings he used ash, mud and earth. His works also included components of writing and occasionally tape recordings.

Projects

Some of his best-known projects included:

• "The Construction of Kuan- Yin Lake " (1982-1989): a multimedia project that sculpture, painting and clay contained.

• " The Raft Project" (1989-1994): a gigantic sculpture / painting project with the painter Eugene Newmann. It was perceived The Raft of the Medusa usually as a replica of Géricault.