Donald Sultan
Donald Sultan was born in North Carolina in the USA in 1951 and is one of the most important contemporary US painters, sculptors, and printmakers. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York in 1975. Like many of his contemporaries, he embraces Pop Art.
Sultan was largely inspired by baroque floral still lifes and Andy Warhol's legendary "Flowers Series" to devote himself to the subject of the floral still life. Clear outlines and hard colour contrasts characterise Sultan's silhouette-like flower paintings, for which he has developed an idiosyncratic technique: as a rule, plywood and plaster serve as a painting ground for tar and bright enamel colours. This produces unmistakable works whose vitality and elegance also unfold in his colour serigraphs.
To this day, Donald Sultan is the youngest artist to be honoured with a solo exhibition at the Museum of Art in New York at the age of just 37.
