罗伯特•德尼罗在其父亲绘画前
美国演员罗伯特•德尼罗（Robert de Niro）举办的展览在毕尔巴鄂BBK开幕，展览包括由他父亲老罗伯特•德尼罗所作的25幅作品，展期至9月27日。
有着根深蒂固的欧洲情怀，特别是法国，但又不失美国风格，罗伯特•德尼罗先生的绘画最大的成就是通过明亮的色彩、大胆地野兽派灵感表现了抽象主义风格，建立了战后20世纪美国绘画的一席地位。
据传闻德尼罗是抽象表现主义艺术的先驱汉斯•霍夫曼(Hans Hofmann，1883—1966)两个最好的学生之一（另一个是Virginia Admiral，德尼罗的妻子），所以没有什么值得惊奇的。德尼罗1940年从纽约抽象表现主义学校就崭露头角，成为了战后第二代领军人物。
Robert de Niro opened an exhibition containing 25 paintings made by his father at BBK in Bilbao. The exhibition has been curated by Martine Soria and will be on view through September 27.
Grounded in European antecedents, specifically French, but unmistakably American in style, the paintings of Robert De Niro, Sr., represent one of the foremost achievements in painterly representation. De Niro’s efforts to reconcile the real with the abstract through the use of brilliant draftsmanship, bold, Fauvist-inspired colors, and confident, gestural brushwork stand as one of the great achievements in postwar twentieth-century American painting.
Hans Hofmann reportedly considered De Niro one of his two best students ever, (the other being Virginia Admiral, De Niro’s wife).1 Thus it was no surprise when De Niro emerged from the New York abstract expressionist school in the 1940s and became a leading member of the second-generation of postwar American painters who turned to representational subject matter as a means of reinvigorating the tradition of painterly expression. These painters, a group that included Larry Rivers, Jane Freilicher, and Paul Resika reopened the discussion of what is possible in painting by returning to figuration and confronting the legacy of their art historical predecessors head on.
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