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Edna Andrade was born on 25 January, 1917 in Portsmouth, Virginia, is an American artist. Discover Edna Andrade's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 25 January, 1917
Birthday 25 January
Birthplace Portsmouth, Virginia
Date of death 17 April, 2008
Died Place Philadelphia
Nationality United States

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1917

Edna Andrade (January 25, 1917 Portsmouth, Virginia - April 17, 2008 Philadelphia) was an American abstract artist.

She was an early Op Artist.

The Op Art movement refers to paintings and sculptures that use illusions or optical effects.

Op art includes graphic elements and use of color that similarly appears in works from other movements such as Post Impressionism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Dadaism.

Edna Davis Wright was born on January 25, 1917, in Portsmouth, Virginia.

1935

Between 1935 and 1936 Andrade studied at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania.

From the age of eight, she was encouraged to practice drawing and painting.

1937

In 1937 she attained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

1938

In 1938 she completed Post Graduate studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

While at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Andrade was awarded two Cresson Traveling Scholarships.

While traveling post World War II, Andrade encountered the Bauhaus movement and other examples of German modernism.

The artistic experimentation happening in Europe influences Andrade's approach to design, color, and abstraction.

1941

In 1941 she married architect Preston Andrade and they moved to Philadelphia in 1946, where she would remain for the rest of her life.

After her studies, Andrade taught art at an elementary school in Norfolk, Virginia.

Subsequently, she taught at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Upon her move to Philadelphia, she began teaching at The University of the Arts, where she taught for thirty years.

In her early career she drafted on a freelance basis, but did not take charge of her career until her marriage ended.

Andrade's early work includes water color collages and ink drawing of abstracted landscapes (an outpouring of art).

During World War II, she worked on propaganda materials for what is now the CIA.

Over the course of her career she created public artwork, commissioned by the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Salvation Army.

1950

Beginning in the 1950s, Andrade painted highly abstract, geometric paintings that used a limited color palette and variety of shapes.

Her work is in numerous collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Buenos Aires, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Dallas Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Baltimore Art Museum, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and the Delaware Art Museum.

Her papers are held at the Archives of American Art.

As a part of the Op art movement, Andrade's style confronts the nature of perception, creating highly abstracted, geometric images.

Her oil paintings possess illusionistic qualities, hence "optical art."

As Andrade began creating illusionistic art, she shifted from organic abstraction to hard-edge geometry, emphasizing symmetrical squares and color juxtapositions.

Andrade's style of painting often produces hallucinatory compositions, psychedelic in appearance and often as if they are moving.

Her paintings have no narrative, nor subject matter, which situate Andrade as an abstract artist.

In an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer, Andrade comments on her paintings, stating, "It's not like showing your emotion. It's a decision to be totally visual. A story doesn't go with it."

As demonstrated by Andrade and her paintings, they are complex visual experiences, based in aesthetic experimentation rather than storytelling.

Her style is best exhibited in her most famous painting, Motion 4-64.

Motion 4-64 is a 48-inch square oil painting featuring black and white rectangles.

The edges bend inward, pulling the viewer into the center of the canvas, creating an illusionary experience.

She implements curvilinear lines to create an illusionistic space, in which the audience visually experiences movement within the geometric, flowing design.

1965

Other paintings such as Turbo I, from 1965, integrate the science of perception into the viewer's experience by using lines and circular movements to create aesthetically engaging canvasses.

In her later work, Andrade returns to painting abstracted landscapes and practices the more fundamental art techniques she learned while at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Andrade listed artists who particularly influenced her style including Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, and Josef Salvador González Ruvalcaba the María Del Refugio González BarajasAlbers.

Andrade also notes that she was influenced by architectural design, philosophy, mathematics, and design (Locks bio).

She was specifically inspired by things such as astrophysics and Freudian psychology, contributing to the complexity and detail of her paintings.

2008

Andrade died on April 17, 2008, at the age of 91 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.