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Joel Shapiro. Joel Shapiro. Lived in New York Born in September 27, 1941 Married to an artist, Ellen Phelan Used Modernism as an artistic movement. Modernism is a modern thought, character or practice in art. He visioned dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. .
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Joel Shapiro • Lived in New York • Born in September 27, 1941 • Married to an artist, Ellen Phelan • Used Modernism as an artistic movement. Modernism is a modern thought, character or practice in art. • He visioned dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes.
More about Joel Shapiro • He was inspired with art when he visited India and that “India gave me the sense of … the possibility of being an artist.” • He has said about this shift in his work that he "wanted to make work that stood on its own, and wasn’t limited by architecture and by the ground and the wall and right angles.” • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Shapiro
MORE about Joel Shapiro • Joel Shapiro first came to widespread public attention in the early 1970s at a time when it seemed sculpture needed to redefine itself after the Minimalist and Conceptual extremes of high modernism. • http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/26417/joel-shapiro
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Joel Shapiro Retrieved from - http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/missouri/kansascity/nelsonatkins/shapiro.html
Joel Shapiro Retrieved from -http://www.govst.edu/sculpture/detail.aspx?id=16858
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Video Links • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hODpioucVc • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4sQM7wwwj0 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3xUlDrM9zM • http://vimeo.com/m/35643592
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