Sylvia Fein

Sylvia Fein is a surrealist painter and author, born in 1919 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She studied painting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she became part of a group of magical realist painters, including Gertrude Abercrombie, Marshall Glasier, John Wilde, Dudley Huppler, and Karl Priebe. Inspired by the quattrocento, Fein paints in egg tempera, which she mixes herself by puncturing the yolk and mixing the drainage with an equal amount of water. Fein painted from her teenage years through 1973; she then took a break from painting and wrote two books--Heidi's Horse, an analysis of the development of her daughter's drawing throughout childhood, and First drawings: genesis of visual thinking, which is about the basic patterns that appear throughout human art, both historically and during childhood development. Fein began painting again in the early 2000s, and exhibited a selection of both her recent and earlier work in 2014.

Contents

• Inside story sylvia fein painter
• Sylvia fein heidi s horse and children s first drawings
• Selected exhibitions
• Books
• References