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    George Segal was an American artist born in 1924 in New York. He discovered his love for art while attending high school in Brooklyn. During his education he met other young artists interested in figurative expressionism. After marrying in 1946, he supported his family by teaching art and worked to develop his sculpting technique. A key work was 1961's "Man Sitting at a Table", where he used plaster bandages on a body cast to create a groundbreaking sculptural style focusing on ordinary people. He became renowned as part of the Pop Art movement, though his works emphasized personal experience over commercialism.

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    George Segal was an American artist born in 1924 in New York. He discovered his love for art while attending high school in Brooklyn. During his education he met other young artists interested in figurative expressionism. After marrying in 1946, he supported his family by teaching art and worked to develop his sculpting technique. A key work was 1961's "Man Sitting at a Table", where he used plaster bandages on a body cast to create a groundbreaking sculptural style focusing on ordinary people. He became renowned as part of the Pop Art movement, though his works emphasized personal experience over commercialism.

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    George Segal was an American artist born in 1924 in New York. He discovered his love for art while attending high school in Brooklyn. During his education he met other young artists interested in figurative expressionism. After marrying in 1946, he supported his family by teaching art and worked to develop his sculpting technique. A key work was 1961's "Man Sitting at a Table", where he used plaster bandages on a body cast to create a groundbreaking sculptural style focusing on ordinary people. He became renowned as part of the Pop Art movement, though his works emphasized personal experience over commercialism.

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    GEORGE SEGAL

    (1924-2000)

    WHO IS HE?
    Born in New York on November 26, 1924 to a Jewish couple who emigrated from Eastern Europe His parents first settled in the Bronx where they ran a butcher shop. They later moved to a New Jersey poultry farm. For a while George lived with his aunt in Brooklyn so that he could attend Stuyvesant Technical High School and prepare himself for a future in the math/science field. It was here that George first discovered his love for art.

    TITLE: RUSH HOUR

    Segals sculptures were direct and unsubtle leftist elitist critiques on the way we live and interact with others that had a populist appeal.Segals subjects appear lost in thought and isolated, even in the midst of others.

    EDUCATION

    Cooper Union School of Art Pratt Institute of Design 1949 B.A. in Arts Education, New York University 1963 Master in Fine Arts, Rutgers University, NJ

    EDUCATION CONTINUED

    It was during these years that Segal met other young artists eager to make statements based on the real world rather than the pure abstractionism that was all the rage. He joined the 10th St scene, painting and concentrating on expressionist, figurative themes.

    MARRIAGE & CAREER

    After marriage to Helen in 1946, they bought their own chicken farm. In order to support his family during the lean years he taught Art and English at the local high school and at Rutgers

    THE START OF SOMETHING BIG

    In 1961, while teaching an adult education class in New Brunswick, a student brought to Georges class a box of dry plaster bandages. Segal took them home and experimented with applying them directly to his body. With the help of his wife, Helen, Segal was able to make parts of a body cast and assemble them into a complete seated figure. Segal provided an environment for his body cast by adding a chair, a window frame and a table. Man Sitting at a Table marked the discovery of a new sculptural technique and a turning point in the artists career.

    BIG WIG IN THE POP ART REVOLUTION


    In later years he perfected the technique and created real life tableaux, using many close friends and family members as models. He became known, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol and others as part of the "Pop Art" movement. Segals distinctive style separated his work from "Pop Art" by staying closely related to personal experience and human values

    GEORGE SEGAL, HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL, 1984, SAN FRANCISCO

    BREADLINE TRENTON

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