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garadinervi · 3 years

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J. B. Murray, Untitled, ca. 1985 [Collection Philippe Eternod and Jean-David Mermod, Lausanne]. From: Scrivere Disegnando. Quando la lingua cerca il suo altro / Writing by Drawing. When Language Seeks Its Other, Curated by Andrea Bellini and Sarah Lombardi, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, January 29 – May 3, 2020. In collaboration with Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne

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milenaolesinska · 2 years

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Exposition Art Blog John Bunion Murray John Bunion Murray (1908–1988) was a self-taught artist in Glascock County, Georgia.At the age of 70, Murray experienced a religious vision while working the fields which inspired him to produce a remarkable body of abstract paintings and drawings in the last decade of his life. Seeing an eagle descend from the sun, Murray believed that he had been granted a privileged religious insight, which was to be the inspiration for his work as an artist. More

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Untitled, c.1978-1988

Tempera and ink on paper

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hungrywonder · 7 years

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cavinmorrisgallery · 8 years

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John Bunion (J.B.) Murray (1908-1988) was a self-taught artist in Glascock County, Georgia. Murray was an illiterate sharecropper who, after a religious vision while working the fields at the age of 70, produced a remarkable body of abstract paintings in the last decade of his life. His work is now in many important collections, including that of the American Folk Art Museum[1] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[2] and has been featured in many museum exhibitions, including “Self-Taught Genius” at AFAM and “When the Stars Begin to Fall” at the Studio Museum.[3]

Murray’s paintings are paradoxical in light of the limitations of his circumstances. Unable to read or write, in his pictures Murray invented a private language of notation, as if it were Adamic script from the late-20th century. While one might expect a septuagenarian sharecropper to create a style in a recognizable local vernacular, Murray’s work, in its heightened color and abstract decorative quality, is comparable to modernist works with a mandarin appeal, by such artists as Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet, and Howard Hodgkin, among others.[citation needed][original research?]

Seeing an eagle descend from the sun, Murray believed that he had been granted a privileged religious insight, which was to be the inspiration for his work as an artist.[4] Murray’s revelation at the age of 70, which commenced his career as a painter, gave his work a prophetic intensity, as he believed himself a medium of God.

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