Robert Yarber Paintings, 1980-88 : Exhibition Catalogue - Softcover

Shaman, Sanford Sivitz

9780911209396: Robert Yarber Paintings, 1980-88 : Exhibition Catalogue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0911209395 ISBN 13: 9780911209396

Publisher: Palmer Museum of Art, 1989

Robert Yarber (born Dallas, Texas, 1948) is an American painter and Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University. Yarber gained international attention when his work was included in "Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade", an exhibit organized by the New Museum for display in the American Pavilion at the 41st Venice Biennale in 1984. At the Venice Biennale, he was one of twenty-four artists represented in the United States pavilion. Yarber gained further prominence with his inclusion in the Whitney Biennial in 1985. Yarber has been credited with influencing the Terry Gilliam film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). According to cinematographer Nicola Pecorini, the look of the film was influenced by Yarber's paintings that are "Very hallucinatory: the paintings use all kinds of neon colors, and the light sources don't necessarily make sense." According to Gilliam, they used him as a guide "While mixing our palette of deeply disturbing fluorescent colors." Yarber is perhaps best known for a series of paintings of flying and falling figures seen above cityscapes viewed at night. The main ideas of Yarber's work revolve around "combining antiquity with modernism. This book is the retrospective from the ROBERT YARBER PAINTINGS: 1980-88 exhibit shown at the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University and the Virginia Museum of Arts between April 1989 and December 1989.

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