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(1926 - )
Raimonds Staprans is a painter whose still life and landscape compositions explore color and form by examining the geometry or ‘architecture’ of everyday objects—chairs, tables, fruit, anonymous buildings—and subverting their inherent naturalism via vibrant color and flattened compositions.
Staprans’ attention to formalist values creates a tension between representation and abstraction that plays with viewers' expectations.
In a shower #3 raimonds staprans artist
Staprans, like Richard Diebenkorn, views subject matter as an integral component in exploring the formal devices of Abstract Expressionism while depicting a recognizable image.
Raimonds Staprans immigrated with his family to America in 1947 after fleeing Latvia during the Soviet invasion.
He studied art at the University of Washington under Alexander Archipenko and Mark Tobey and then obtained his master’s degree at UC Berkeley where he studied with Hans Hofmann. His work is held in the permanent collections o