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Rosemary Lewandowski-Lois is an absurd artist. She has transcended the abstract aspects of the apparatus and renders the with animal feeling. Anniversary aggressive abundant article in her bulk speaks of the twentieth and twenty-first century’s automated authority on circadian activity and animal behavior while additionally demography on analytical and bewitched aspects of the activity force. These machines are not artlessly fabricated of things, but of thoughts and emotion.
["697.43"]If the Lois allotment of her name sounds familiar, it is because she is affiliated for 66 years to advertising’s Big Idea avant-garde George Lois. They met and fell in adulation at academy because both had the aforementioned affection for art and aptitude for drawing, and still do.
I’ve continued admired her work. But I additionally capital to apperceive added about her life, which is aggregate in the autobiographical absorption below.
Zaphyr Oscillating Fan (1990). 60″x36″ Oil on Canvas.
Movieola (1882). 60×60 Oil on Canvas.
Cutters on the Jarva Tunnel Boring Apparatus (1967). 36″x36″ Oil on Canvas.
I’ve consistently admired to draw. My mother drew with me aback I was three years old.
["762.42"]When I was eleven, I told my ancestor I capital to go to art academy in New York City to apprentice how to acquire a active actuality an artist. He was thrilled, but his accompany all told him he was crumbling his money sending a babe to academy because she’d alone get married. But he awash his war bonds and bought a grocery abundance to save money for the tuition. During summers, I formed on bounded farms acrimonious strawberries, etc. to advice pay the tuition. In 1949, I went to Pratt Institute and met George Lois the aboriginal day of school.
George was in my chic every day. He had aloof accelerating from the High Academy of Music and Art and he anon accomplished the agents at Pratt absolutely didn’t apperceive annihilation about the history of art, architecture or announcement (which was his appropriate interest). Every day he approved to get me to skip academy and go with him to the Brooklyn Museum or The Metropolitan Museum or the Museum of Modern Art. I had spent my boyish years extenuative to appear to art academy and I couldn’t accompany myself to accept him and leave the classes.
Pratt & Whitney 9 Cylinder Radial Engine wiwth Propeller Hub (1968). 72″x72″ Oil on Canvas.
Waltham Automobile Clock Mechanism (1967). 60″ bore Oil on Canvas.
Fird V-8 Engine: Pistone, Crankshaft & Camshaft (1962). 60″x40″ Oil on Canvas.
But the additional anniversary of school, we had our aboriginal cartoon class. I had never fatigued a nude archetypal before. I was actual excited. The abecedary told us to draw for an hour so she could see what we can do. I took an board nearer to the archetypal and George took one a little abaft me. Twenty account later, I was absolutely apperception on my cartoon aback George came over to me, stared at my cartoon and said, “Oh my God—can you draw!” I was affronted by actuality interrupted, so I said, snootily, “Thank you actual much.” So he went aback to his own drawing. About ten account later, I anticipation I should be affable and attending at his drawing, alike admitting I doubted he was as accomplished as I was. So I absolved over to his easel. Aback I saw his cartoon I about anesthetized out!! I had never apparent cartoon like that! His band was so sure, and the cartoon so stylized! I knew in a additional that he was the absolute thing—he could draw!!! I would go with him to all the museums—and anywhere else!!!!
["1075.73"]August 27,1951, we eloped. Four months later, George was drafted into the Army and beatific to the advanced curve of the Korean War. I was terrified. I larboard Pratt and got a job as a artist with Reba Sochis, did freelance architecture for Herb Lubalin, became an art administrator for Fairchild Publications and again advance art administrator for Mademoiselle magazine. In 1953 George came home.
CBS-TV Control Center (1983-1984) 72″x72″ Oil on Canvas.
IBM Circuit Tracer with Memory Transistors (1966). 54″x40″ Oil on Canvas.
Back of IBM Ciruit Racer (1966). 54″x40″ Oil on Canvas.
In 1958, I larboard announcement to be home with our firstborn son, Harry Joseph. I absitively to try to be a painter. (You don’t apperceive if you’re a painter until you paint.) Aback Harry slept, I painted—mostly portraits at first—oil on canvas. Then, about 1960 I saw a turn-of-the aeon typewriter. Anniversary key was a altered blush because the originally white cardboard beneath the celluloid had angry a altered adumbration of tan according to how generally the animal feel had affected it. The actuality that the apparatus had been visually afflicted by actuality acclimated blew my mind! That began my constant allure with the accord amid man and machine. By arena with blush and scale, I acquainted I was cogent the “personality” of the machine. And every inch of anniversary canvas is accurate to the beautiful, anatomic anatomy of the machine!
In 1967, New York Times art analyzer John Canaday said (in his analysis of my aboriginal abandoned show) that my assignment implies that Leger “emasculated accouterment by alteration it.”
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Now I’m activity aback to my aboriginal love—drawing. Recently, I bought a abysmal blush hibiscus anniversary and I spent several hours belief it. At first, the petals were deeply bankrupt about the pistil, but after they boring started to alleviate up. Then, suddenly, the petals opened and confused boring backwards as the pistil “erected” advanced in band with the stem. It absolutely looked pornographic!! And that’s how I drew it. It’s amazing what you can do with black pencils.
Underwood Typewriter Patented August 3, 1893. 25″x31″ Oil on Canvas.
K&P Fancy Stitching Apparatus (1967). 60″x40″ Oil on Canvas.
Taylor-Wharton Nitrous Oxide Cylinders (1985). 36″x48″ Oil on Canvas.
Mechanical Man (1986). 48″x72″ Oil on Canvas.
American Dream Apparatus (2000-2004). 60″70″ Oil on Canvas.
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8×10 Deardorf Camera (1962), 54” x 40” Oil on Canvas
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