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Hackett-Freedman: Robert De Niro, Sr. |
 | | De Niro’s efforts to reconcile the real with the abstract through the use of brilliant draftsmanship, bold, Fauvist-inspired colors, and confident, gestural brushwork stand as one of the great achievements in postwar twentieth-century American painting. |
 | | Thus it was no surprise when De Niro emerged from the New York abstract expressionist school in the 1940s and became a leading member of the second-generation of postwar American painters who turned to representational subject matter as a means of reinvigorating the tradition of painterly expression. |
 | | Indeed, De Niro revered 19th-century French painting (Corot, Ingres, Delacroix) and was a fervent admirer of the French modernists (Matisse, Bonnard, Derain, and Soutine). |
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