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Making His Own "Mark" As a young child, Peter Blume emigrated from Russia with his family. By the time he was fifteen, he was enrolled at the Educational Alliance in the lower East Side of New York, where he learned about modern art and met many advanced artists. He painted this picture, Vegetable Dinner, when he was a precocious 21.From this figure and other paintings too, we know that Blume was acquainted with past traditions, including the Egyptian habit of showing heads in strict profile and torsos in frontal view. This woman, though, seems less Egyptian than modern Art Deco. She's rather racy with her lighted cigarette and zigzag-patterned dress. Is it worth noting that Blume's father worked in the clothing trade? He was a "marker," noted for his ability to lay out patterns on fabric for economy of materials while keeping the patterns matched.
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