Who is Nicholas Krushenick?

Nicholas Krushenick (May 31, 1929 – February 5, 1999) was an American abstract painter, collagist and printmaker whose become old artistic style straddled Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism and Color Field. He was alert in the New York art scene from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, before he began focusing his grow old as a professor at the University of Maryland. Initially experimenting in imitation of a more derivative Abstract Expressionist style, by the mid-1960s he had developed his own unique approach, painting increasingly decisive compositions marked by bold, colorful, geometric fields and forms simultaneously flattened and amplified by strong black outlines, in a style that eventually became known as Pop abstraction. In 1984, the biographical dictionary World Artists, 1950-1980 observed that Krushenick “has been called the only in point toward of fact abstract Pop painter.” Today, as supplementary artists have been purposefully folded into the similar paradoxical genre, Krushenick is not single-handedly considered a singular figure within that style but also its pioneer, earning him the title “the dad of Pop abstraction.”