Painting
From the 1950s to the 1980s, Woodman's artistic output consisted largely of colorful oil paintings on canvas. His earliest paintings in the 1950s to the early 1960s were landscapes. In the early 1960s, he painted abstract works "with heavy, painterly brush strokes," but by the mid-1960s "the paint was applied thinly and evenly" in his abstracts. In the 1970s, as a mentor of the Colorado Criss-Cross artists' cooperative, Woodman was associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement. His paintings have been exhibited in at least two solo shows: "Sensuality in a World of Reason" in 1998 and "George Woodman: Paintings 1960-2000” in 2007.
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