Hyman Bloom. Hyman Bloom was a Latvian-born American painter known for his vivid, emotionally charged works that explore themes of mortality, spirituality, and the human body.
He often focused on subjects like mystical visions, autopsies, and decaying corpses. Bloom’s work combines elements of realism and abstraction, using rich color and texture to evoke beauty and decay simultaneously.
Notable examples of Bloom's paintings include Cry (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts) depicting a nude male figure kneeling with his hands outstretched, as if in prayer or supplication; and Female Corpse, Back View (also Boston, Museum of Fine Arts), which exemplifies his fascination with decay through intricate, almost abstract compositions of visceral textures and colors. His work was influenced by his Jewish heritage and Eastern religions as well as by artists including Altdorfer, Grunewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Blake, Bresdin, Ensor and Soutine.
He first came to prominence when his work was included in the 1942 Museum of Modern Art exhibition Americans 1942 - 18 Artists from 9 States. MoMA purchased 2 paintings from the exhibition and Time magazine singled him out as a striking discovery in their exhibition review.
His work was selected for both the 1948 and 1950 Venice Biennale exhibitions and his 1954 retrospective traveled from Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art to the Albright Gallery and the de You
He often focused on subjects like mystical visions, autopsies, and decaying corpses. Bloom’s work combines elements of realism and abstraction, using rich color and texture to evoke beauty and decay simultaneously.
Notable examples of Bloom's paintings include Cry (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts) depicting a nude male figure kneeling with his hands outstretched, as if in prayer or supplication; and Female Corpse, Back View (also Boston, Museum of Fine Arts), which exemplifies his fascination with decay through intricate, almost abstract compositions of visceral textures and colors. His work was influenced by his Jewish heritage and Eastern religions as well as by artists including Altdorfer, Grunewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Blake, Bresdin, Ensor and Soutine.
He first came to prominence when his work was included in the 1942 Museum of Modern Art exhibition Americans 1942 - 18 Artists from 9 States. MoMA purchased 2 paintings from the exhibition and Time magazine singled him out as a striking discovery in their exhibition review.
His work was selected for both the 1948 and 1950 Venice Biennale exhibitions and his 1954 retrospective traveled from Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art to the Albright Gallery and the de You
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