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Dan Dailey: Impressions of the Human Spirit
Dan Dailey: Impressions of the Human Spirit is a retrospective examination of a transformative sculptor whose creative ideas and inventiveness expanded the vocabulary of art.
In the 1960s, Dailey was entrenched in the experimental San Francisco art scene, and was among the many discontented artists who rebelled against Abstract Expressionism. Desiring to tell stories and explore the human condition, Dailey turned to the figure and everyday life as a source of artistic inspiration. His chosen medium of glass, which was unfamiliar in the exclusive art world, was initiated by the resurgence of traditional crafts and the material-based teachings of the Bauhaus.
Dailey has maintained that experimental attitude and has stayed faithful to 鈥� while greatly expanding on 鈥� the traditions of craftsmanship, making his work groundbreaking and difficult to place within established art historical categories.
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Dan Dailey: Impressions of the Human Spirit is a retrospective examination of a transformative sculptor whose creative ideas and inventiveness expanded the vocabulary of art.
In the 1960s, Dailey was entrenched in the experimental San Francisco art scene, and was among the many discontented artists who rebelled against Abstract Expressionism. Desiring to tell stories and explore the human condition, Dailey turned to the figure and everyday life as a source of artistic inspiration. His chosen medium of glass, which was unfamiliar in the exclusive art world, was initiated by the resurgence of traditional crafts and the material-based teachings of the Bauhaus.
Dailey has maintained that experimental attitude and has stayed faithful to 鈥� while greatly expanding on 鈥� the traditions of craftsmanship, making his work groundbreaking and difficult to place within established art historical categories.
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