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In 1948-49 William Perehudoff was
a student of Colorado Springs Fine Art Centre and in
1949-50 studied under Le Corbusier's former student
Amedée Ozenfant in New York. Perehudoff has also
attended various Emma Lake artists' workshops including
the workshop led by Clement Greenberg in 1962 and the
one led by Kenneth Noland in 1963.
For forty years, Perehudoff,
through his artwork, has carried on a dialogue with both
American colour field painting and the longer European
abstract tradition. He has, it can be said, done so in a
more sustained way than have any of his western
compatriots. Moreover, it is not easy for an artist to
show his work: Perehudoff's outreach through exhibitions
has been singularly steady and influential.
Perehudoff's work typically
juxtaposes figure with figure- they usually being bars
or discs - and figure with ground. The matrix is one for
the evolution of colour use, design, and art historical
reference which inform his art.
The constructivist element of
Perehudoff's work has been particularly evident at
times, for instance in the 1990s. The style configures
closely with that of Malevich, Olga Rozanowa, Tatlin,
etc., but Perehudoff is unique; the scale of his
constructivist work is frequently larger, its palette
usually more developed, and the images often flatter.
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