Richard Rappaport
Richard Rappaport ( born 1944 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American painter.
Life
Rappaport studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (1966 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the College of Fine Arts). In 1981 he graduated as a Master of Fine Arts at Brooklyn College in New York. 1968 undertook Rappaport traveling extensively through Europe ( Italy, Germany and France) and lived for three years in Paris, where he resided at the Cité Internationale des Arts, and for a time lived in a studio in the suburb of Vincennes. In 1973 he moved to the East Village, Manhattan, New York City and later to Brooklyn. In 1985, he returned to Pittsburgh. Since 1981, international art magazines such as Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, Bomb, Modern Painters, or World Art, Rappaport presented work. As a student and close friend of Robert Lepper at the Carnegie Institute of Technology Rappaport, along with Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, Mel Bochner and Jonathan Borofsky is one of the most renowned painters who were influenced by Lepper lectures Individual and Social Analysis. Time and again, Rappaport also return to portraiture. For Rappaport painting is a creative act always associated with memory and he uses the abstraction often representations that are reminiscent of Christian iconography.