Joseph Fiore

Joseph Fiore (1925–2008) was an American painter. He was full of life with Black Mountain College from 1946–1957, first as a student and sophisticated as a aficionada of the faculty.

Fiore was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Fiore's dad was a violinist and founding zealot of the Cleveland Symphony.

Fiore was conscripted as an infantryman and served in Northern France during World War II. He went to North Carolina in the summer of 1946 to examination at Black Mountain College, where he was allied with capacity members Ilya Bolotowsky, who taught painting, and Charlotte Schlesinger, the piano instructor. While he primarily emphasized painting, music was a mighty secondary interest. Fiore sang in the school's chorus and took a musical composition from John Cage during the 1948 Summer Institute.

During his era as a student at Black Mountain College, Fiore also met and married Anne Furman Banks, another pupil at the school. In the fall of 1948, the two briefly left Black Mountain for the West Coast, where Fiore studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. By the summer of 1949, the two were assist in North Carolina, in allowance due to an disease requiring his wife to be hospitalized in Asheville. Fiore was appointed a gift member in 1949 as well, chosen by Pete Jennerjahn to replace outgoing talent member Josef Albers. In the summer of 1950, Fiore met and fell in love with substitute student, Mary Falconer Fitton. The two were married discreetly in 1952. Their liveliness at Black Mountain College was dramatically marked by a flame in 1953, which destroyed most of the Fiores' worldly goods and a large amount of finished work. The artiste remained at Black Mountain College as a knack member until the school's closure in 1957.

Fiore's unquestionable departure from Black Mountain brought him to New York City. His first significant behave there was a two-man exhibition later fellow Black Mountain College alumnus and sculptor John Chamberlain at Davida Gallery in 1958.

He died at his home in New York City in 2008, survived by his wife Mary and kids Thomas and Susanna.

Fiore created abstract oil paintings and collages. His put-on was frequently was frequently inspired by the natural world. The gigantic majority of works Fiore created at Black Mountain College were free to a flame on campus in 1953. However, some of his radiant collages were spared. James Thompson described Fiore's long artistic career as dividing into three periods:

"The first, which began similar to his take steps at Black Mountain College, includes an exploration of modernism under Bolotowsky that started taking into account a examination of European masters considering Picasso, Braque, and Klee and continued subsequent to America's first major school, the Abstract Expressionists. [...] During the second major get older of his art Fiore applied his knowledge of non-figurative composition to natural motifs: he became a landscape painter in a much more obvious and traditional sense. [...] The third period of Fiore's art includes works inspired by ethnic carved and painted rock decorations."

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