Items From The 1960''s \u0026 1970's Some Famous Works, Art Of Family Member \u0026 Her Artifacts
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John Dingler Presents: William Brun's Paintings
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37" Tall x 35" Wide Original Oil Paint Work
"One of the most 'Prolific Artists' i've ever met . . . William Brun has persistently
created work through 'Thick and Thin' - with all that goes with being an artist -
he has a continuity that remains to this day, quite the sign of a 'True Artist' . . .
having been friends for the past twenty + years - i have admired his concreteness
in the constant of maintaining an image as one of the 20th Century's Artists to be
paid attention to . . .
The 100's of works i have witnessed being done - have been with a consistency
and i might add, a love on the part of the artist - for the 'art of painting'. William
Brun has always remained close as a witness of our times - he 'writes' into and
around each work like a maze. Each work portraits a vision of an artist that views
and creates dialogue upon the surface that he develops - as a sort of document
contained 'within the artwork' . . . may he continue with his artistic integrity and
prolificy . . . "
- Richard W. Lubrich Jr.
William Robert Brun combines hard-edged abstraction with Pop Art sensibilities. The reputation of hard-edged tradition in Southern California was solidified by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 1959 exhibition, Four Abstract Classicists, which included the work of Benjamin, Feitelson, Hammersley and McLaughlin. Pop Art burst onto the Los Angeles scene in 1962 when the ground-breaking Ferus Gallery exhibited Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup can paintings for the first time on the West Coast.
Walter Hopps was the co-founder and director of the Ferus Gallery who left that position in 1962 to become the Curator and Director of the Pasadena Art Museum, which somewhat surprisingly, was a national beacon for modern art during the 1960s through the early 1970s.
In 1964, Hopps selected Brun’s Untitled for inclusion in Ten Southern Californians, an exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum designed to showcase emerging artists working in a variety of media and styles. Hopps described his selections as being “off beat” and a continuation of the Pacific Profile of Western Artists exhibition from 1961.
With its bold colors, edited design and recognizable forms, Brun’s Untitled fits into the prevailing Pop aesthetic of the early 1960s, but his approach is more severely stripped down compared to Warhol and other contemporaries, making his a unique artistic vision.
About William
William Robert Brun is a Southern California painter who first gained recognition in the 1960s. Born in San Diego, Brun began art making while serving in the US Army in Germany during the mid-1950s. Upon his return to the United States, Brun enrolled in the Chouinard Art Institute where he studied with Robert Irwin, Richard Rubens, and Robert Graham, though Brun also considers himself to be largely self-taught. During the 1960s, Brun exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pasadena Art Museum, Claremont University and the Feigen Palmer and David Stuart Galleries. He has served as an art instructor at the Watts Towers Art Center. His early works draw on hard-edged and pop influences as well as Dada, Surrealism and German Expressionism, while is later works combine figures, text and symbols which take on an outsider and almost extraterrestrial quality.