George c ault biography of michael
In placing these signifiers of history into an alien and indecipherable world, Ault calls upon the viewer to approach them with a new eye and to recognize the..
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Biography of George Ault
By Charles Moffat.
George Copeland Ault (Born in Cleveland Ohio, October 11, 1891 � Died in WoodStock New York, December 30, 1948) was an American painter.
He was loosely grouped with the Precisionist Movement and was also influenced by Cubism and Surrealism.
Ault was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and spent much of his youth in London, England, where his father was engaged in ink manufacturing.
Michael Ault was born circa , in birth place, Pennsylvania.
He studied at the Slade School of Art and St. John's Wood School of Art (where his painting style was described as an Anglicized version of Impressionism).
In 1911 he returned to the United States where he would spend the rest of his life in New York and New Jersey.
He began to paint New York night scenes and architectural subjects in a spare, modernist style (similar to those of Joseph Pennell). He became interested in night effects, a major theme in m
