Throughout the series, Colescott does much more than just insert his own version of the art historical isms. ... Robert Colescott, “art history 16: AMERICAN ART” (1979), ...

Colescott, who passed away in 2009, enjoyed a lengthy career from the late 1960s through to the 2000s, turning art’s own past against itself and reflecting, through art, on what it meant to be a ...

Is there an artist better suited than Robert Colescott to test the limits of our current moment, when calls for social justice have led to demands for cultural censorship and art institutions have … ...

Robert Colescott’s “Bombs Bursting in Air,” 1978. ... a Muslim redeemer, a small-time thug and an irate customer, all turning to violence for their own reasons — or for no reason at all.

Eventually, Colescott’s own uniquely American experience would become central to his work. He was born in 1925, to parents of mixed racial heritage who’d moved from the New Orleans area to ...

Robert Colescott, a painter whose wild brush strokes across sprawling canvases depicted the ugly ironies of race in America, died June 4 at his home in Tucson. He was 83 and suffered from ...

Colescott, a light-skinned Black American man who could pass as white, used the painting to weave together the history of race in the US and his own personal experiences, according to Bonhams.

But Colescott, who studied under Fernand Leger in Paris, never adopted the approach of his contemporaries. Instead, he developed his own deeply expressive style, while continuing to paint people ...

Robert Colescott was a brilliant painter before he went to Egypt in 1964. After visiting Egypt, he became an original. A flamethrower. The artist who now perhaps most deserves a complete ...

NEW YORK — The paintings of Robert Colescott, who died in 2009, refuse to behave. They are also difficult to love. A retrospective of his work at the New Museum, ...

Robert Colescott (1925-2009) Robert Colescott, an American figurative painter, created garishly powerful canvases that lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors and ...