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Alice Baber

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Alice Baber

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American painter and activist (1928-1982)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Fayetteville
Active from
1980-05-18

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Quotes

  • My intention from the very beginning,was to try to find a way that didn't remind me of a thousand other people that I had seen.
  • “I often paint a painting until it tells me to stop, and sometimes the white ground still shows,In most cases, I try to make the white ground either a pattern, so that it can be both negative and positive space, or if not that, perhaps an atmospheric wind moving the other colors and shapes around.
  • “I feel that an abstract painting is outer space, and I am in front of it, suspended in outer space, so that there isn't any horizon line. However, there is probably a sense of up and down, and side to side.” Beyond that, “I want the viewer to create part of the meaning.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Alice
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Charleston
Place of death
New York City
Occupation
artist
Field of work
abstract art
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date of birth
1928-08-22
date of death
1982-10-02
has works in the collection
Museum Ludwig
cause of death
cancer
manner of death
natural causes
pseudonym
Jenkins, Mrs. Paul
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