John De Andrea

{{Short description|American sculptor|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{COI|date=November 2018}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = John De Andrea | honorific_suffix = | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1941|11|24}}<ref>{{cite book|author1=Roy T. Matthews|author2=F. DeWitt Platt|title=The Western Humanities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPlhU0N4BPUC|year=1997|publisher=Mayfield Publishing|isbn=978-1-55934-433-3}}</ref> | birth_place = Denver, Colorado, U.S. | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | education = [[University of Colorado Boulder]] ([[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]])<br>[[University of New Mexico]] | known_for = Realistic sculptures of human figures | notable_works = | style = | movement = Photorealism, hyperrealism, verism and superrealism | spouse = | partner = | awards =  | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website =  | module = }}

'''John De Andrea''' (born November 24, 1941) is an American [[sculptor]] known for his realistic sculptures of human figures, dressed or nude and in true-to-life postures.

==Life== De Andrea was born in [[Denver]], Colorado, on November 24, 1941.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frank Henry Goodyear|title=Seven on the figure: Jack Beal, William Beckman, Joan Brown, John Deandrea, Willem de Kooning, Stephen Destaebler, Ben Kamihira, September 20 – December 16, 1979|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wbBJAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=[[Richard Kostelanetz]]|title=A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tsq6NDST_b0C&pg=RA2-PT78|date=13 May 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-80620-9|pages=2ff}}</ref> He received his [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] from the [[University of Colorado at Boulder]] and studied at the [[University of New Mexico]] in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]] on an art scholarship, 1966–8. He lives in Denver.<ref>[http://www.meiselgallery.com/lkmg/artist/bio.php?aid=34 Biography, publications, exhibitions, bibliography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714072007/http://www.meiselgallery.com/lkmg/artist/bio.php?aid=34 |date=2011-07-14 }}, retrieved August 13, 2010</ref>

==Work and themes== De Andrea is an artistic representative of [[Hyperrealism]] and the [[Hyperrealism (visual arts)|Hyperrealism school of art]], and specializes in nudes, frequently lovers, which he makes from plastic, polyester, glass fiber with natural hair and painted after naturalistic gypsum castings. His work is often associated with that of [[Duane Hanson]] and [[George Segal (artist)|George Segal]].<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Joan Marter|Joan M. Marter]]|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&pg=RA1-PA36|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-533579-8|pages=1–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Joe Sutliff Sanders|title=The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are Not So Clear|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIcWDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT66|date=28 July 2016|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-4968-0727-4|pages=66ff}}</ref>

In [[documenta 5]] in [[Kassel]] 1972,<ref>{{cite book|author1=John L. Plews|author2=Diana Spokiene|title=Translation and Translating in German Studies: A Festschrift for Raleigh Whitinger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pUTUDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT191|date=8 November 2016|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|isbn=978-1-77112-230-6|pages=191ff}}</ref> he presented ''Arden Andersen and Nora Murphy'', a hyper-realistic sculpture of a couple in the act of love-making, made from bodycasts rendered in polyester resin.<ref>{{cite book|author=James Voorhies|title=Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form Since 1968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pq4yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA89|date=24 February 2017|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-03552-1|pages=89ff}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=[[Richard Conte (artist)|Richard Conte]]|author2=Sandrine Morsillo|author3=Centre d'études et de recherches en arts plastiques (Paris)|title=Qu'est-ce que l'art domestique?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXR4A_SXFbUC&pg=PA66|year=2006|publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne|isbn=978-2-85944-553-9|pages=66ff}}</ref>

This alienation between the lovers and their incurable misfortune becomes even clearer with his 1978 work on display in Aachen, entitled ''The Couple''. The man is not only fully dressed and the woman naked, but she clings to him, while he touches her only minimally, in order to not induce an open rejection.<ref>[http://www.ludwigforum.de/content/mus/lufo/sammlung/schwerpunkte/usa/andrea.html John de Andrea] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130071712/http://www.ludwigforum.de/content/mus/lufo/sammlung/schwerpunkte/usa/andrea.html |date=2010-11-30 }} at ''Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst'', Aachen, Germany, retrieved August 13, 2010</ref>

De Andrea's works based on the sculptor and his model are characterized by a sober, professional relationship between the man and the woman; the artist concentrates on his work or rather is shown in situations, where he withdraws within himself to a meditative posture, and retreats into himself, in order to collect his energy and concentration for further work.<ref>[http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/collections/C_deandrea.asp John De Andrea Allegory:after Courbet 1988.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130043546/http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/collections/C_deandrea.asp |date=2010-11-30 }} Art Gallery of Western Australia, retrieved August 13, 2010</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110727030429/http://www.tu-cottbus.de/theoriederarchitektur/wolke/deu/Themen/961/kerber/Andrea.gif John de Andrea, Sculptor and model], Abb. TU Cottbus, retrieved August 13, 2010</ref>

==Public collections== De Andrea's work is included in numerous permanent collections, including: * [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/727479|title=John De Andrea | Self-Portrait with Sculpture|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|date=1980 |accessdate=27 November 2023}}</ref> * [[Museum Ludwig]] in Aachen and Cologne, Germany.<ref>Ursula Peters: ''John De Andrea''. In: ''Handbuch Museum Ludwig. Kunst des 20. Jahrhundert''. Cologne 1979; p. 50</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ludwigforum.de/en/event/collection-american-highlights-of-the-lufo-collection/|title=Ludwig Forum|website=ludwigforum.de}}</ref> * [[Portland Museum of Art]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=7787;type=701|title=John DeAndrea|website=portlandartmuseum.us}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/visit/events/nash_lecture.html|title=Color in Modern Sculpture (Visit the Getty)|website=www.getty.edu}}</ref> * [[Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://museum.cornell.edu/collections/modern-contemporary/sculpture/garnet|title=Garnet – Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art|website=museum.cornell.edu}}</ref> and * [[Denver Art Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.westword.com/arts/why-john-deandreas-linda-sculpture-wont-be-seen-at-the-denver-art-museum-anytime-soon-5792231|title=Why John DeAndrea's ''Linda'' sculpture won't be seen at the Denver Art Museum anytime soon|first=Bree|last=Davies|date=8 November 2011|publisher=}}</ref>

==See also== *[[Duane Hanson]] *[[Ron Mueck]] *[[George Segal (artist)|George Segal]]

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20180930142509/http://faculty.etsu.edu/kortumr/HUMT2320/postmodern/htmdescriptionpages/sphinx.htm John de Andrea. Sphinx. 1987. Polyvinyl, oil paint: life-size.] East Tennessee State University

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