Description Themes of mortality and spirituality in the long-neglected art of a midcentury American pioneer "Bloom\'s unsettling paintings are fueled by a sense of existence as a state of spiritual emergency and of art as a means for transfiguring fear." -Holland Cotter, Art in America Hyman Bloom was a contemporary of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky.
This new study focuses on Bloom\'s paintings and drawings of human corpses.
Description Themes of mortality and spirituality in the long-neglected art of a midcentury American pioneer "Bloom\'s unsettling paintings are fueled by a sense of existence as a state of spiritual emergency and of art as a means for transfiguring fear." -Holland Cotter, Art in America Hyman Bloom was a contemporary of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky