| Lobdell's diverse body of work is linked by its shared sense of
humanity. In the 1940s, he was among the pioneers of the San Francisco
Bay Area school of abstract expressionism. During the 1950s, he
gradually reintroduced the human figure into his work, thus expanding
conventional conceptions of both abstraction and figuration. Drawing
inspiration from the vision of Francisco Goya, these works presented a
dark, existential worldview shaped by the cumulative horrors of World
War II, the Ho (showing 500 of 5090 characters). |
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Frank Lobdell is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
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