1. Victor George Kord was born on 1935 and is an American painter and educator.
16 Facts About Victor Kord
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Victor Kord currently maintains a studio and exhibits in New York City.
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Victor Kord previously served as art department chair for several major universities, and remains professor emeritus of painting at Cornell University Department of Art.
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Victor Kord graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1957 where he studied with Louis Bosa, was friends with Julian Stanczak and was mentored by Richard Anuszkiewicz.
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Victor Kord then studied at Yale School of Art with Joseph Albers and James Brooks, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1958 and a Master of Fine Art in 1960.
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Victor Kord taught painting to undergraduate and graduates and introduced the course based on Alber's method of color interaction.
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Victor Kord moved to Richmond, Virginia to become chair and professor at the Department of Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University, from 1981 through 1987.
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Victor Kord continued as department chair until 1993 and retired Professor Emeritus in 2005.
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Victor Kord helped to sponsor many visiting artists to art departments.
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In 2019 Victor Kord was invited to participate on the "Longevity to Legacy Panel" at the annual College Art Association conference.
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In 1971 early in his career, Victor Kord was included in the exhibition "Lyrical Abstraction" curated by Larry Aldrich at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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Much of Victor Kord's painting practice was during his academic appointments.
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Victor Kord's painting expresses the interaction between the rational and the poetic, with a rhythmic cursive frieze playing against a soft pattern.
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Victor Kord was active locally in university art communities where he often curated exhibitions of other artists.
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In 1962 Victor Kord received the Guggenheim fellowship, one of the youngest at 26 to receive the award.
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Victor Kord maintained a studio at the American Center in Paris, France where he met the critic Max Kozloff, and artists Irving Petlin, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Seymour Rosofsky and Pater Saul.