{{Short description|American painter (1937–2014)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Ron Kleemann | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Ron Kleemann | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1934|7|24}} | birth_place = Bay City, Michigan, USA | death_date = {{date of death|2014|5|30}} | death_place = Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA | field = Painting | training = B.S. in Design, University of Michigan 1961. | movement = Photorealism | works = | patrons = | influenced by= | awards = }}
'''Ron Kleemann''' (July 24, 1937 – May 30, 2014) was an American photorealist painter. Kleemann has been recognized as one of the original artists of the Photorealism movement.<ref name="Photorealism">Meisel, Louis K. ''Photorealism'', Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY, 1980.</ref> His work is usually that of shiny, brightly painted vehicles sometimes focusing on just certain parts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesunion-albany/obituary.aspx?pid=171211502 |title=Ronald Kleemann's Obituary by Albany Times Union |publisher=Legacy.com |date= |accessdate=2014-07-18}}</ref><ref name="Website">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050525172848/http://www.ronkleemann.net/ Ron Kleemann Biography]}}</ref>
== Biography == Kleemann began to use photographs as aides for his paintings in 1968.<ref>Meisel, Louis K. ''Photorealism'', Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY, 1980. Pg. 303.</ref> These early paintings had subjects such as trucks and cars. Some of the paintings were superimposed with parts of the male and female body. In the early 1970s, Kleemann began to paint extreme close ups of race cars and trucks. This series of paintings made him an icon of Photorealism and solidified his position amongst the original Photorealists.<ref>Meisel, Louis K. ''Photorealism Since 1980'', Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1993.</ref>
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