Phantasmagoria
Artist
Robert Beauchamp
(American, 1923 - 1995)
Date1990
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 70 × 70 × 1 1/2 inches (177.8 × 177.8 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Lawrence Shainberg.
Object number1997.2
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The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label Text"Fill up the space," Robert Beauchamp would intone to his students. "Don't leave holes in the painting." Phantasmagoria attests to this philosophy. A student of abstract painter Hans Hoffman, Beauchamp adopted his teacher's exploration of plasticity and spatial tension created through the use of color alone. Beauchamp went further than Hoffman, developing abstract forms into wild, sometimes dissonant arrays of cartoon-like images from his imagination. Beauchamp first achieved prominence during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism in the 50s, then again in the early 1980s when figurative neo-expressionist painting dominated the art world.