« For a long time I had the idea that symmetry and geometric shapes weren’t expressive or emotional; but geometry is at the heart of natural form. »
Jack Youngerman
Jack Youngerman
He later went to France on scholarship and enrolled in Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1948. He studied drawing with Jean Souverbie. After his art career picked up, he associated with great artists such as Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, his lifelong friend Francois Morellet and Peggy Guggenheim.In 1956, Jack Youngerman moved back to the United States, specifically New York. Later on in 1959, he was included in the 16 Americans Exhibit that was held at the Museum of Modern Art.In the 1960s and 1970s, he sought to make his art in steel and aluminum sculptures and was more interested in non-western art and had an interest in organic forms. This was the period he chose to shift from the flatness of art on canvas to voluptuous three dimension free-form structures. He reinvented his earlier aluminum and steel forms and shapes in fiberglass with Christopher Janney's, a light and sound artist, assistance. He majored primarily in Lithography as a printmaker. Read Less
