Thomas Downing (onye na-ese ihe)

Thomas Downing (1928-1985) bụ onye na-ese ihe America, jikọtara ya na Washington Color Field Movement, nke gosikwara Sam Gilliam, Kenneth Noland, Howard Mehring, Alma Thomas, na Paul Reed. 

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Thomas Downing na Suffolk, Virginia.  Ọ akwụkwọ akwụkwọ na Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, ebe ọ nzere bachelọ nke Arts na 1948. Ọ akwụkwọ akwụkwọ na Pratt Institute, ụlọ akwụkwọ nka ama na Brooklyn, New York, ruo 1950. N'afọ ahụ, ọ  natara site na Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, na-enyere ya aka ịga Europe, bụ ebe ọ akwụkwọ akwụkwọ obere oge na Académie Julian na Paris

Na 1951 ọ la ndabere na United States, na mgbe ọ na-eje ozi na US Army, biri na Washington, DC, ebe ọ malite, na 1953. N'oge akwụkwọ na-esote, ọ debanyere aha na ụlọ akwụkwọ na Mahadum  akwụkwọ, na-agụ akwụkwọ n'okpuru Kenneth Noland .  Ọ bụ́ enyi nke Noland, onye ọrụ nnukwu na nka Downing na onye bụ otu n'ime ndị mgbasa ozi Washington Color Field Movement.

N'ọgwụgwụ 1950s, Downing kesara otu studio na Howard Mehring, onye ọzọ na-ese ihe nke Ndị Akwụkwọ Agba Washington na agba agba .  Na 1964 Clement Greenberg nkiri Noland, Mehring, Downing na ndị ọzọ na ihe ngosi ihe ngosi njem ya nke ikiri Post-painterly Abstraction   

Site na 1965 ruo 1968, Downing Konri na Corcoran College of Art and Design na Washington, DC N'ebe ahụ mmadụ ndị mmadụ ndị n'aka ha ikpe ndị na-ese ihe na-emetụta echiche Downing

Ihe osise ya ruo n'ókè ibu nwere ibu a haziri n'usoro ziri ezi na kwaaji, na agba na-ahụ ụdị echiche nke symmetry si dị.  Ihe osise Downing's Spot bụ ọrụ ya kacha mara amara. , Saul OstrowThomas Downing at Gary Snyder/ProjectSpace, Art in America, May, 2008, retrieved June 21, 2009

N'ime afọ iri ikpeazụ nke ndụ ya, Downing biri na Provincetown, Massachusetts .  Ọ nwụrụ na October 1985 na Provincetown, Massachusetts mgbe ọ dị afọ 57. N'ime akwụkwọ ọmụmụ ya, Washington Times ọnwụ ya dị ka ihe omimi.  Akwụkwọ asụsụ a na-ekwu maka nke Washington Agba Field artist Gene Davis (1920–1985) na akwụkwọ mbụ nke Howard Mehring (1931–1978), kwa. 

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 Ndị edemede dị iche iche: Barbara Rose, Gerald Nordland, Walter Hopps, Hardy S. George; Ịgbaji Akpụkpọ ahụ, Nhọrọ sitere na Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961–1968, katalọgụ ngosi, Oklahoma City Museum of Art 2007, 

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