Robert Beauchamp was an American figurative painter and arts educator.
20 Facts About Robert Beauchamp
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Robert Beauchamp's work was described in the New York Times as being "both frightening and amusing".
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Robert Beauchamp was a Guggenheim Fellow and a student of Hans Hofmann.
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Robert Beauchamp had three brothers and three sisters; the children were orphaned by the time Beauchamp was three.
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Robert Beauchamp was told he was good at drawing, and replaced study hall classes with art classes, receiving instruction and inspiration from a Welsh teacher named R Idris Thomas.
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Robert Beauchamp would spend upwards of four hours a day in the art room and eventually won the Carter Memorial Prize, which provided a scholarship to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
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Robert Beauchamp eventually joined the Navy and then returned to Colorado Springs to continue his studies.
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Robert Beauchamp moved to New York City in the early 1950s and was involved in the Tenth Street galleries, which provided outlets for more experimental artists and the second generation of abstract expressionists.
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Robert Beauchamp showed at numerous galleries in New York and Provincetown, socializing with gallery owners, artists and collectors.
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Robert Beauchamp traveled frequently to cities such as Rome and worked constantly.
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Robert Beauchamp returned to the states and lived in Provincetown at Walter Gutman's house, who awarded Robert Beauchamp a grant.
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Robert Beauchamp taught at a variety of schools during his lifetime including Brooklyn College, School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York during the last fifteen years of his life.
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Robert Beauchamp died in March, 1995, of prostate cancer in New York.
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Robert Beauchamp described his drawings as painterly, seeking the spontaneity in an image.
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Robert Beauchamp would develop a drawing then a painting, and vice versa.
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Robert Beauchamp's heavily impastoed paintings, often described as sculptures themselves, came from the pouring of paint from a can, with little planning and constant evolution in the medium upon the canvas.
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Robert Beauchamp preferred little planning to his creations, believing that an artists work would become stale and repetitive with constant planning.
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Robert Beauchamp had little intention of ever selling his large works, preferring to create them due to the slow and intense experience he received from the process.
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Robert Beauchamp called the characters in his paintings as Beauchamps.
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Robert Beauchamp made up the creatures himself, seeking to emphasize the character of each.