About: John Opper

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

John Opper (1908–1994) was an American painter who transitioned from semi-abstract paintings in the late 1930s to fully abstract ones in the 1950s. He became known for his handling of color and in particular his ability to create dramatic intensity on the picture plane by means of juxtaposed, more-or-less rectangular areas of color. He was associated with the abstract expressionist movement and frequently showed in galleries that specialized in abstract expressionist art. Late in life, he described his style by what it was not. He said, "The whole is the sum of its parts. That's what my school of abstract art is about, a school that evolved from nature, not conceptual, not geometric, not hard-edged. It's only art."

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • John Opper (1908–1994) was an American painter who transitioned from semi-abstract paintings in the late 1930s to fully abstract ones in the 1950s. He became known for his handling of color and in particular his ability to create dramatic intensity on the picture plane by means of juxtaposed, more-or-less rectangular areas of color. He was associated with the abstract expressionist movement and frequently showed in galleries that specialized in abstract expressionist art. Late in life, he described his style by what it was not. He said, "The whole is the sum of its parts. That's what my school of abstract art is about, a school that evolved from nature, not conceptual, not geometric, not hard-edged. It's only art." (en)
dbo:birthDate
  • 1908-10-29 (xsd:date)
dbo:birthName
  • John Samuel Opper (en)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:deathDate
  • 1994-10-04 (xsd:date)
dbo:deathPlace
dbo:restingPlace
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 60742024 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 47652 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1119610841 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthDate
  • 1908-10-29 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthName
  • John Samuel Opper (en)
dbp:birthPlace
dbp:colwidth
  • 30 (xsd:integer)
dbp:deathDate
  • 1994-10-04 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
dbp:knownFor
  • Artist, art teacher (en)
dbp:name
  • John Opper (en)
dbp:nationality
  • U. S. citizen (en)
dbp:restingPlace
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • John Opper (1908–1994) was an American painter who transitioned from semi-abstract paintings in the late 1930s to fully abstract ones in the 1950s. He became known for his handling of color and in particular his ability to create dramatic intensity on the picture plane by means of juxtaposed, more-or-less rectangular areas of color. He was associated with the abstract expressionist movement and frequently showed in galleries that specialized in abstract expressionist art. Late in life, he described his style by what it was not. He said, "The whole is the sum of its parts. That's what my school of abstract art is about, a school that evolved from nature, not conceptual, not geometric, not hard-edged. It's only art." (en)
rdfs:label
  • John Opper (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • John Opper (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License