Theresa Pollak

Theresa Pollak (August 13, 1899 – September 18, 2002) was an American player and art educator born in Richmond, Virginia. She was a nationally known painter, and she is largely qualified with the founding of Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts. She was a speculative at VCU's School of the Arts amongst 1928 and 1969. Her art has been exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. She died at the age of 103 upon September 18, 2002
and was answer a memorial exhibition at Anderson Gallery of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Theresa Pollak's mature do something features a synthesis of symbolic and abstract traditions. The subjects of her enactment include yet lifes, landscapes, portraits, and figure studies that are explorations of form, color, and space. According to the artist, “Art is not an imitation of nature, but an artist’s reaction to life.” She was most influenced by French post-Impressionists such as Henri Matisse whose take effect she first encountered at a private gallery exhibition in New York in the 1940s. "That my painting shall be heartwarming in form, vibrantly alive, expressive of myself and of the age in which I live," was the wish of her works. She was a tireless futuristic of unprejudiced art and the faculty of artistic expression, writing an article in explanation of the exhibition of contemporary American art at the Virginia Museum in 1958.