About Red Grooms
Red Grooms was born in 1937 at Nashville. He moved to New York City in 1957. It seems that the transition of life from a small town to New York City, a big busy, teeming city that was populated with ambitious people, immigrants and different people from all over the world, made many of Red Grooms's pieces talk about city life.
"In the fifties, the Abstract Expressionists still in the ascendancy largely turned their backs on the city, looking inwards for spiritual sustenance or outwards toward nature in search of the sublime, a younger generation was beginning to take as a subject the city itself in all its squalor, seediness, and throbbing life. Under these circumstances, a branch of Pop Art was born. Grooms's vigorous brushwork was freely borrowed from that of Abstract Expressionists, but his works usually involve creating expressive possibilities of storytelling and comic anecdote during a period when such conventions have largely been banished as anathematic to seriousness.", excerpted from the book, redGrooms by Arthur C. Danto el.
In my opinion, Grooms successfully created an unique image that is connected to human's lives, mostly more joyful, colorful, and full of fun. He took on the attributes of his subjects and expressed them through the clown objects which are not the same as its origin. Through a humorous form of Pop Art, in most cases, usually we could connected many his works to another enjoyable form extracted from our lives.
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