John Moore

American artist and painter (born 1941)

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Also known as John J. Moore

Born: April 25, 1941
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, 1941
Birthplace: St. Louis
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: painter
Education: Washington University in St. Louis
, Yale University
Employer: University of Pennsylvania

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John Moore is an American contemporary realist painter. His art has focused on studio interiors, still lifes, and in his best-known work, cityscapes and the American post-industrial landscape of dilapidated mill towns and factories. He emerged in the early 1970s amid a resurgence of representational work, appearing in many surveys and critical examinations that helped define new modes of American realism. While the highly detailed nature of his work evokes that movement, it diverges from approaches such as photorealism in its social concern, painterly handling and composite compositions, which distill direct observation, sketches, memories and photographs of multiple sites and views into re-imagined but believable scenes. Curator John Stomberg wrote of these constructed worlds: "The image he creates is only real in the painting, yet all the parts do have their origins in the observable world. Therein lies the eerie potency of Moore's vision—its plausibility. He is more of a spectacular fabulist than a realist."

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