![]() ![]() Attends public schools in Port Arthur and graduates from Thomas Jefferson High School, where he is active in the school theater as a costume and set designer.įall 1945–Winter 1946: Trains as a neuropsychiatric technician in the Navy Hospital Corps, while stationed at Camp Pendleton, San Diego. Raised by a deeply religious mother, Rauschenberg aspires to become a preacher at age thirteen but decides against it when he realizes the fundamentalist Church of Christ to which his family belongs forbids dancing, one of his passions. Develops a love for animals and has many pets, including ducks, rabbits, frogs, and a goat. As a child, creates an elaborately decorated environment in his room, drawing images on the walls, painting red fleurs-de-lis all over the woodwork and furniture, and building a structure of crates filled with jars and boxes of found objects to divide the room that he shares with his only sibling, Janet, born in 1936. The only son of Dora Carolina Matson and Ernest Rauschenberg, an employee of Gulf States Utilities, a local light and power company. Jason Neve, Chef in Residence 2018-2019īorn Milton Ernest Rauschenberg on October 22, 1925, in Port Arthur, Texas, an oil refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico, near the Louisiana border. ![]() Jackie Vitale, Chef in Residence 2019-2020.From this point the physical process of making the painting can begin. I hope to distil the essence of a state of mind so I need to tune in to myself and it is through doing this that the idea for the painting starts to germinate. Jules: I often start with a moment of reflection, I may read a poem or listen to a piece of music. He worked for over six decades and developed his own highly original visual language. I also love the rawness and energy of Antoni Tapies. The Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s have been very important to me as have some of the artists of the postminimal art movement in the 1960s, particularly Eva Hesse an American artist known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. I first fell in love with painting when I was at school particularly the beautiful and highly emotional paintings of Edward Munch. Jules: So many artists have been important to the development of my work. During the years that I was establishing my career as an art therapist and bringing up my daughter I didn’t have a studio and had very little spare time but I always kept sketchbooks and spent many an evening drawing at my kitchen table. In my teenage years even before doing a foundation course I turned my bedroom into a studio, and ruined the carpet with oil paint!. Jules: I really can’t remember a time before art was at the centre of my life. I hope to create an organic object that evolves like a living thing with its own presence and imperfections.Ĭarol: When Did You Know You Were Going To Be An Artist? The physicality of the materials lends an analogy to the body. The materials are important, I often use not traditional or industrial materials in my work. They relate to the body rather that representing it directly. ![]() Although there is often a human presence in my paintings, the forms I use are not human forms as such. ![]() Jules: Although my work has evolved and changed over the years it has always been related to emotional states and how these are expressed through the body. As usual, I wanted to know more about her inspiration and process.Ĭarol: What Is The Inspiration Behind Your Artwork And How Does It Relate To Your Pieces? The surface of the paintings reveal the process of layering involved in making them, concrete, plaster, raw canvas and delicate stitching combine with monochromatic areas of black or grey as well as lighter tones. Jules Allan’s paintings are created in a constant state of revision, by layering, scraping and dissolving the paint she distils the essence of a state of mind. ![]()
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