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  Morris Louis Bernstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Morris Louis (Morris Louis Bernstein) (1912 - 1962) was one of the many talented U.S. abstract expressionist painters to emerge in the fifties.
In 1952, Louis moved to Washington, D.C. Living in Washington, D.C., somewhat apart from the New York scene and working almost in isolation, he and a group of artists that included Kenneth Noland were central to the development of Color Field painting.
Louis characteristically applied extremely runny paint to an unstretched canvas, allowing it to flow over the inclined surface in effects sometimes suggestive of translucent color veils.
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Born Morris Louis Bernstein to Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was raised in Baltimore, Maryland.
She applied liquid paint onto unprimed canvas, it was then allowed to flow across and soak into the canvas, the result being a stain of paint as opposed to a layer of paint applied on the surface.
Louis was perhaps the greatest exponent of Colour Field painting.
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 Morris Louis Bernstein -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
From 1936 to 1940, Louis lived in New York, where he worked in the easel division of the (additional info and facts about WPA) WPA Federal Art Project.
All of these artists were concerned with the classic problems of pictorial space and the statement of the picture plane.In 1953, he and Noland visited (additional info and facts about Helen Frankenthaler) Helen Frankenthaler’s New York studio, where they saw and were greatly impressed by her stain painting Mountains and Sea (1952).
However, even more so than Frankenthaler, Louis eliminated the brush (The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals) gesture, although the flat, thin (Dry coloring matter (especially an insoluble powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint etc)) pigment is at times modulated in billowing tonal waves.
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 Morris Louis - AMAM
Louis learned the process of staining the canvas with thin washes of pigment from the abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler (b.
In the early 1950s, Louis moved back to Washington, D.C., and devoted himself to developing a response to the New York School of abstract painters.
Louis did not title these works either individually or as a group, and it is not clear when the term "veil" for Louis's works first came into general use.
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Louis held a variety of odd jobs to support himself during these years, from peeling potatoes for an Italian restaurant, folding clothes in a laundrette, mowing lawns, and helping his pharmacist broth, Nathan.
Louis converted the dinning room into a studio which he worked in for the rest of his life.
Louis had been selected for there second exhibition, the opening exhibition was a show of paintings by Barnett Newman.
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 Morris Louis
Louis Born 28 November in Baltimore, MD to Cecelia and Louis Bernstein, immigrants from Russia.
Louis exhibits a gouache in a group exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Louis was included in a group show at the Leo Castelli Gallery and then had his first solo exhibition at Martha Jackson Gallery.
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 Morris  Louis 
Country : US Born Morris Bernstein in Baltimore, Maryland, Louis studied art at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts from 1929 to 1933.
Forsaking the three dimensions, Louis worked on emeshing spectrums of color, differentiated by hue, filling his canvases with "color space" without perspective.
Louis was greatly influenced by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell.
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 Ulster Museum : Collections : Art : The Sixties Art And Fashion : Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Morris Louis Bernstein was the son of a Russian emigrant.
Louis is most famous for a remarkable series of veil paintings produced during the late 1950s, of which this is a notable example.
She is considered one of the pioneers of the Colour Field movement and her techniques were an early and important influence on Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis.
www.ulstermuseum.org.uk /collections/art/The_Sixties_Art_and_Fashion   (5294 words)

  
 Reader's Companion to American History - -MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Born into a New York family distinguished for its wealth, lineage, and political influence, Morris lost his leg in a carriage accident as a young man. He graduated from King's College (now Columbia University) and in 1771 was admitted to the bar.
Morris declined his friend Alexander Hamilton's invitation to contribute to The Federalist and played no role in the ratification of the Constitution.
For his part, Morris had attempted a daring but impractical scheme to rescue Louis XVI and his family from the revolutionary authorities.
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 Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Louis - Biography
1962, Washington, D.C. Morris Louis was born Morris Louis Bernstein on November 28, 1912, in Baltimore.
In 1952, Louis moved to Washington, D.C. There, he taught at the Washington Workshop Center of the Arts and met fellow instructor Kenneth Noland, who became a close friend.
In 1954, Louis produced his mature Veil paintings, which were characterized by overlapping, superimposed layers of transparent color poured onto and stained into sized or unsized canvas.
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 Morris Louis Biography / Biography of Morris Louis Biography
The American painter Morris Louis (Bernstein; 1912-1962) explored new realms of pictorial space with his series the Veils, the Unfurleds, and the Stripes.
Morris Louis Bernstein was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1912.
Although described by his friends as a loner, Louis was active in the local art community.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Morris Louis
Louis, Morris (1912-1962), American abstract painter, the main pioneer of color-stain, or color-field, painting.
Numbered rulers named Louis are entered below by their countries, in alphabetical order, and by regnal numbers.
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 Columbia Museum of Art: Exhibitions (Next Exhibition)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Theresa Bernstein's Self-Portrait, 1914, with its bright colors and heavy brushstrokes, exemplifies the expressive potential of the self-portrait, while Seated Couple, 1954, by Raphael Soyer, conveys intimacy and psychological tension between the painter and his subjects.
Marcella and Joe Went Walking, 1950, by Morris Louis, includes an abstracted Jacob's ladder painted with Miro-inspired lines over saturated color that anticipates Louis's signature stain paintings.
Painters such as Louis and his contemporaries Adolph Gottlieb and Robert Motherwell offered a spiritual aesthetic that was at once modern and distinctly American.
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 Baltimore City Death Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Louis B. Beck 1948/01/12 G 58993 CR 48,283.
Louis J. Belzner 1948/01/27 G 59575 CR 48,284.
Louis J. Bender 1948/12/02 G 69152 CR 48,286.
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 Morris Louis --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Louis studied painting at the Maryland Institute, Baltimore (1929–33), and from 1937 to 1940 he worked as an easel painter in the Works Projects Administration (WPA) Federal…
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A poet and painter, William Morris was first of all a practical, working artist.
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 florals morris louis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 CLEMENT GREENBERG PAPERS, 1928-1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Files on Pollock, Morris Louis, David Smith, and Jack Bush contain assorted materials, including photographs and slides of art work, transcripts of interviews, and estate papers.
Morris Louis material, including correspondence, lists of paintings, programs.
Letters between Marcella Bernstein (Louis' widow) and Greenberg regarding estate matters, and between Greenberg and dealers or curators, chronologically organized.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Unfurled Banners -- Apr. 21, 1967   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To many of his suburban Washington, D.C., acquaintances in the 1950s, Morris Louis Bernstein was simply a peevish, chain-smoking, introverted art teacher.
About all the world knew was that he was married to a high school principal, never discussed what he was doing during the eleven hours and more a day that he spent in his studio.
One of the few painters who gained admission to his inner sanctum reported with awe, "There isn't a goddam brush in the place." Nonetheless, under his painting name of Morris Louis, Bernstein gained a reputation in Manhattan art circles.
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 Amazon.com: Copland: Music for Films: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Slatkin and his polished Saint Louis players are the perfect advocates and the RCA recording is first class.
The performance by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Slatkin is simply stellar and the selections include every note the composer ever wrote for the silver screen.
Leonard Slatkin rivals other famous Copland champions such as Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tillson-Thomas for the sheer pastoral beauty he is able to bring forth in the composer's music.
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 Hand Drumming & Dance Calendar and Resource Guide - St. Louis Region
Louis Universal Dances of Peace Open dance curcle getherings held several times per month in an American Sufi tradition, incorporating dances from Islamic/Sufi, Hebrew, Buddhist, and Christian traditions.
Louis African Chorus SLAC's purpose is to increase public awareness of Africa's cultural heritage through performing traditional and contemporary African music and other art forms, encouraging traditional values and African languages and music among young people.
FolkFire Dance and Music This newsletter is the centralized source of information in St. Louis for the folk arts, including dance and music, and to promote folk groups and events.
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Ira J. Bernstein, Aaron Kurn, Bernard Bernstein, Helene Bernstein, Louis Izenstein, Julius Kimball, Morris Hyte, Sylvan Saffer, William Schreiber, Julius Kaletsky, and Maurice Kurn took on the responsibility of hiring teachers, enrolling students, raising funds, and seeing that the education was the finest in both Judaic and General Studies.
It was on April 30, 1966, that board president Dr. Morris Borenstein held his famous Saturday night meeting at Kodimoh.
The purpose of the meeting was to get a mandate from the Board to go to the leaders of the community and ask them to raise enough money to pay off our obligations and to close the school at the end of the year.
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 Search Results for Bernstein - Encyclopædia Britannica
Bernstein of Leigh, Sidney Lewis Bernstein Britannica Book of the Year 1994
Bernstein, Edward Morris Britannica Book of the Year 1997
U.S. economist who, at the Bretton Woods Conference (1944), where a global post-World War II financial strategy was drafted, played an influential role in convincing British economist John Maynard...
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 Marcella Brenner Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Her annual gift to faculty members at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel provides additional funds for the publication of essential research and educational material.
Creates an annual scholarship award for a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, in memory of Morris Louis, a graduate of the school.
Establishes the annual Morris Louis Fellowship in Painting for an outstanding MFA degree candidate in painting, Columbian School of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University.
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 The Statutory and Common Law of Appellate Practice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With offices in St. Louis, Mo. and O'Fallon, Ill., he also handles appeals in numerous other states.
An Appellate Court will affirm a directed verdict in favor of the defendant only if all the evidence, viewed in the aspects most favorable to the plaintiff, so overwhelmingly favors the defendant that no contrary verdict based on that evidence could ever stand.
Bernstein, M.D. Forensic and Clinical Neuropsychiatry, Brain Injury and Stroke, Neurotoxicology, Litigation Support.
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Morris Kantor, Bernard Karfiol, Karl Knaths, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Henry Varnum Poor, Millard Sheets.
Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Howard Mehring, Sam Gilliam, Blaine Larson, Michael Clark, J.L. Night, Rockne Krebs.
Introduction and essays on Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Lucas Samaras, H.C. Westermann by Martin Friedman.
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 Bloomsbury.com - Research centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Le Nain Antoine (-1648) Louis (-1648) and Mathieu (1607-1677) French family of painters....
Loo van Jean-Baptiste (1684-1745) Carle (1705-1765) and Louis Michel (1707-1771) French family of artists....
Louis Morris (Morris Louis Bernstein) (1912-1962) American painter of Russian descent....
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 ArtsJournal: About Last Night
Mark Morris is rightly regarded as the finest modern-dance choreographer of his generation, and his "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato," a richly varied, deeply moving evening-length setting of Handel's oratorio to Milton's text, is widely believed to be his masterpiece.
And as for Morris, I can think of any number of his post-1988 dances which I and many other critics and dance lovers believe to be as good as L'Allegro, even if they're not as long.
The flat-footed and those whom the gods of turn-out have not favored have their place with Morris, as do the fresh and frank American girl and the sultry glamour girl (Betty and Veronica, if you will), the beach hero and the fellow into whose face the beach hero kicks the sand.
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 Duane Morris - James J. McCabe
Marshall M. Berstein of Berstein & Bernstein for plaintiff.
Reversed the finding of lower court and thereby qualified the doctrine of immunity of out-of-state witnesses to service while in the state to testify.
Duane Morris is a registered service mark of Duane Morris LLP.
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 Bernstein's Studio - News Items - 2003
7/10/2003 -- The Leonard Bernstein Award for Educational Programming was presented to the New York Youth Symphony this past June at the American Symphony Orchestra League conference in San Francisco.
Leonard Bernstein's satire on American suburban married life stars Stephanie Novacek as Dinah and Karl Daymond as Sam facing a serious marital breakdown, from which the latest movie release -- Trouble in Tahiti seems the only escape.
Jamie Bernstein Thomas narrated the performance with Michael Barrett as conductor.
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