Gerome Kamrowski was an American visual artist and pioneer in the surrealist and abstract expressionist Movements in the United States.
18 Facts About Gerome Kamrowski
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Gerome Kamrowski was born in Warren, Minnesota, on January 19,1914.
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Nevertheless, Gerome Kamrowski decided to remain in New York for a short time, to attend classes taught by George Grosz.
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In 1937 Gerome Kamrowski went to Chicago to study under Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Alexander Archipenko at the New Bauhaus.
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In 1938 Gerome Kamrowski received a Guggenheim fellowship to attend Hans Hofmann's summer school in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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Gerome Kamrowski then relocated to New York where he met William Baziotes.
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Gerome Kamrowski was particularly drawn to Surrealism's fundamental appeal of intuition over intellect.
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Gerome Kamrowski invited Kamrowski, along with William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Peter Busa, and Robert Motherwell to join.
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Friedman, Gerome Kamrowski recalled that one day he, Pollock, and Baziotes were fooling around' with quart-cans of lacquer paint.
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Gerome Kamrowski next gave the dripping palette knife to Jackson, who with his intense concentration' started flipping the paint with abandon.
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In 1947, Gerome Kamrowski was invited to the Surrealist Exhibition in Paris by Surrealist leader Andre Breton.
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Gerome Kamrowski urged them to be unafraid of failure and consider it a natural part of the creative process," and says "Above all, he stressed the importance of finding one's own path and that it would take hard work and dedication to achieve that.
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Gerome Kamrowski was a natural teacher who related well to students because he himself never stopped being one.
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Gerome Kamrowski worked every day and exhibited steadily in Michigan and elsewhere.
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Gerome Kamrowski cited architects Antoni Gaudi and Simon Rodia as inspirations.
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Gerome Kamrowski created 2 Venetian glass mosaics for the Joe Louis Arena Station of the Detroit People Mover elevated train.
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Gerome Kamrowski's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Phillips Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, Israel Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Weisman Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Flint Institute of Arts, and University of Michigan Museum of Art.
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Gerome Kamrowski died at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 27,2004.