Nicholas Krushenick

Nicholas Krushenick (May 31, 1929 – February 5, 1999) was an American abstract painter, collagist and printmaker whose grow old artistic style straddled Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism and Color Field. He was nimble in the New York art scene from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, before he began focusing his epoch as a professor at the University of Maryland. Initially experimenting in the publicize of a more derivative Abstract Expressionist style, by the mid-1960s he had developed his own unique approach, painting increasingly decisive compositions marked by bold, colorful, geometric fields and forms simultaneously flattened and amplified by mighty black outlines, in a style that eventually became known as Pop abstraction. In 1984, the biographical dictionary World Artists, 1950-1980 observed that Krushenick "has been called the only in intention of fact abstract Pop painter." Today, as additional artists have been deliberately folded into the similar paradoxical genre, Krushenick is not lonely considered a singular figure within that style but in addition to its pioneer, earning him the title "the daddy of Pop abstraction."