{"id":2198739,"date":"2025-12-14T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2198739"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:23:19","slug":"oskar-fischinger-exhibit-explores-works-of-pioneer-abstract-artist-arts-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/oskar-fischinger-exhibit-explores-works-of-pioneer-abstract-artist-arts-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Oskar Fischinger Exhibit Explores Works of Pioneer Abstract Artist | Arts &#038; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A solo art exhibit, Oskar Fischinger: A Deeper Look, will open Jan. 2 at Sullivan Goss Gallery spotlighting the innovative painting career of Oskar Fischinger, the pioneer of abstract animation and visual music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exhibit coincides with the release of the first major monograph dedicated entirely to Fischinger\u2019s work as a painter, an attempt to balance the scales on an artist whose 800-painting body of work has been overlooked by the focus on his films,\u201d according to the gallery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blue Square Cluster, 1937 | 43 x 43 inches | oil on canvas. (Oskar Fischinger)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Together these projects celebrate the rediscovery of a pioneering Los Angeles artist whose work is as relevant and fascinating today as it has ever been.<\/p>\n<p>While Fischinger (1900-67) is rightly celebrated for his revolutionary abstract films, his commitment to painting spanned over 30 years, a period longer than his work in cinema, the gallery said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe display will feature a selection of his most idiosyncratic canvases,  demonstrating an evolution driven by his unique vision and an outsider mentality, including early works that were developed in conjunction with various film projects, a major stereoscopic painting that we recently featured in an exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum, and important late works from the mid-60s,\u201d Sullivan Goss said.<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying monograph,\u00a0\u201cOskar Fischinger,\u201d with an introduction by Paul Karlstrom and essay by gallery owner, Nathan Vonk, serves as the definitive text to date on this aspect of his life\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>It examines his development after his arrival in Los Angeles in 1936, a period marked by his influential relationships with figures like German \u00e9migr\u00e9 art dealer Galka Scheyer (patron of The Blue Four) and Baroness Hilla von Rebay, curator for the newly established Solomon R. Guggenheim foundation in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the challenges of Los Angeles\u2019 nascent contemporary art scene, Fischinger\u2019s creative freedom allowed for groundbreaking works that were utterly unique in the history of art from this region, the gallery said.<\/p>\n<p>Today his paintings are in the collection of nearly every major museum in California and prominent institutions like MOMA, the Guggenheim, and the Smithsonian on the East Coast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.noozhawk.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solo art exhibit, Oskar Fischinger: A Deeper Look, will open Jan. 2 at Sullivan Goss Gallery spotlighting the innovative painting career of Oskar Fischinger, the pioneer of abstract animation and visual music. \u201cThe exhibit coincides with the release of the first major monograph dedicated entirely to Fischinger\u2019s work as a painter, an attempt to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2198740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22442],"class_list":["post-2198739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-arts-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Oskar-Fischinger-Exhibit-Explores-Works-of-Pioneer-Abstract-Artist.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198741,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198739\/revisions\/2198741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}