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1. Does the highlighted section describe his visual iconography after development? i.e Chicago Imagist Painters encouraged him to develop his iconography more toward popular culture, outsider art and non-western art traditions?
2. Does "Chicago Hairy Who" has any specific meaning? What does "hairy" mean here? Does it refer to a group of bearded artists?
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I majored in painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and worked with artists/teachers known as the Chicago Hairy Who or the Chicago Imagist Painters who encouraged me to develop my own visual iconography that resonated in popular culture, outsider art and non-western art traditions. The interesting thing about these sources is that they were abundant in visual incongruities of the humorous sort, and I was quite taken with them.
2. Does "Chicago Hairy Who" has any specific meaning? What does "hairy" mean here? Does it refer to a group of bearded artists?
Context:
I majored in painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and worked with artists/teachers known as the Chicago Hairy Who or the Chicago Imagist Painters who encouraged me to develop my own visual iconography that resonated in popular culture, outsider art and non-western art traditions. The interesting thing about these sources is that they were abundant in visual incongruities of the humorous sort, and I was quite taken with them.
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1. Ambiguous. It could be what their encouragement was at the time, or a description in later hindsight of what resulted.
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- Ambiguous.
- It could be what their encouragement was at the time, or a description in later hindsight of what resulted.
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- 'Hairy' presumably contrasts with something like 'combed', giving a sense of the natural or outside-normal human expression.
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1. Ambiguous. It could be what their encouragement was at the time, or a description in later hindsight of what resulted.
2. 'Hairy' presumably contrasts with something like 'combed', giving a sense of the natural or outside-normal human expression. 'Who' presumably is to create a sense of the unknown/undefined with regard to who they are.
Perhaps others have further ideas
2. 'Hairy' presumably contrasts with something like 'combed', giving a sense of the natural or outside-normal human expression. 'Who' presumably is to create a sense of the unknown/undefined with regard to who they are.
Perhaps others have further ideas
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