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Bookmark or Share- Bob Thompson | Whitney Museum of American ArtBob Thompson (June 26, 1937 – May 30, 1966) was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were influenced by the Old Masters. His art has also been described as synthesizing Baroque and Renaissance masterpieces with the jazz-influenced Abstract Expressionist movement.
- Bob Thompson - Studio Museum in HarlemBob Thompson brought the political tumult of the early 1960s into his dynamic figurative paintings, challenging the midcentury interest in abstraction as a preferred mode of expression.
- Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine - Smart Museum of ArtThe first museum exhibition devoted to the artist in more than twenty years, This House Is Mine traces Thompson’s brief but prolific transatlantic career, examining his formal inventiveness and his engagement with universal themes of collectivity, bearing witness, struggle, and justice.
- The incredible, forgotten life of painter Bob ThompsonBob Thompson’s “The Wind” from 1963. Thompson frequently depicted birds, perhaps as symbols of freedom and the ultimate flight of death. Several paintings in Mia’s show riff on “bacchanal” paintings of the Baroque era, which not so subtly evoke the sex, drinking, and merriment of myth.
- Bob Thompson Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStoryBob Thompson, in an intensely productive period, defied the standards for pure abstraction by creating vividly colored, phantastical paintings.
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