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Thornton Dial (28 September 1928 – 25 January 2016) was a pioneering American artist who came to prominence in the late 1980s. Dial's body of work exhibits ...
Thornton Dial
American artist
Thornton Dial was a pioneering American artist who came to prominence in the late 1980s. Dial's body of work exhibits formal variety through expressive, densely composed assemblages of found materials, often executed on a monumental scale. Wikipedia
Born: September 28, 1928, Emelle, AL
Died: January 25, 2016 (age 87 years), McCalla, AL
Known for: assemblage paintings, sculpture
Children: Thornton Dial Jr. and Mattie Dial
Parents: Mattie Bell
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Profoundly influenced by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dial used art to confront issues of racial oppression in the United States, developing an allegorical style ...
Thornton Dial's work utilizes a narrative and abstract style that speaks to both personal and universal concerns.
As the eldest son and namesake of the acclaimed artist Thornton Dial Sr., known as “Buck,” and the father of Thornton Dial III, a talented artist himself, Dial ...
Dial was the earliest and most important visual artist to be associated with Alabama's Black Belt, an achievement he managed utterly without institutional ...
This four-time Emmy-winning film follows the life of artist Thornton Dial, and Bill Arnett, an art collector who discovered him. Through their experiences it ...
Thornton Dial was a pioneering African-American artist best known for his large-scale assemblage paintings. View Thornton Dial's 246 artworks on artnet.
Thematically, Dial's art traverses the extensive terrain of African-American history, from the trauma of slavery and the Great Migration to the triumphs of the ...
Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham, Alabama, this exhibition provides a thorough overview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial.