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Birth Year : 1901Death Year : 1970Country : USWilliam H. Johnson was born into a working-class black family in Florence, South Carolina. He moved to New York City at the age of seventeen and lived t with his uncle. He was educated in the academic and formal traditions of art at the National Academy of Design, which he entered at the age of twenty. In 1926, Johnson went to Paris, w he not only painted but also began his studies of modernist art. He soon moved to the south of France, w he began rapidly developing his own style, a realist-Impressionism strongly influenced by Van Gogh and Cezanne . One of the most powerful influences on Johnson during that period was the work of Soutine, with its use of distorted forms to express emotion and mood. He and his wife traveled throughout Norway and North Africa, studying traditional crafts and art in both cultures. Those travels strongly influenced Johnson's later style: he found in indigenous works an expressive boldness and naiveté of form upon the qualities of which he would base so much of his mature works. In 1933, with the gathering threat of war in Europe, Johnson returned to New York and encountered another important influence: the intensity and excitement of life in Harlem. It was in the late 1930's and 1940's, bringing together his interests in modernism, primitive art, and African-American read more
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