Billy Al Bengston
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 Billy Al Bengston facts

• He was educated at Los Angeles City College Los Angeles, CA (1952), California College of Arts & Crafts Oakland, CA (1955), and the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA (1956)
• After seeing the work of Jasper Johns at the 1958 Venice Biennale he adopted the motif of a set of sergeant's stripes
• This recurring image was painted with industrial materials and techniques associated with the decoration of motorcycle tanks and surfboards
• Bengston encouraged viewers in the early 1960s to associate his art with motorcycle subculture, for instance by straddling a bike on the cover of the catalogue for a 1961 show at Ferus Gallery
• His interest in cars lead to Judy Chicago, one of his students, attending auto body school and using spray painting techniques
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• Crow draws attention to the deliberate contrast between Bengston's flamboyant, competitive, aggressively masculine stance and a delicate, modest approach to his art
• Silhouettes of iris flowers figure prominently in Bengston's paintings
• In the 1960s, he often painted a single centrally placed flower
• In the 1970s, he began using multiple iris silhouettes, often surrounded by overlapping circles, as in Canopus Dracula from 1977, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art