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Hilaire Hiler was born inSt. Paul, Minnesotain 1898, and he grew up inProvidence, Rhode Island. Possessing both great height and a flamboyant personality, as well as astammerand large ears, Hiler was a distinctive and charming character who felt at home anywhere.[1]

Hiler attended a number of schools as a young man, includingRhode Island School of Designclasses for children, and a brief attendance at Wharton School of Finance and Commerce to appease his father.[2]Although he was told by multiple instructors to give up art based on his struggles with drawing, he pursued his interests by attendingPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art,University of Pennsylvania,University of Denver,University of Paris, andGolden State University.[2][3]

As anexpatriateliving in Paris in the 1920s, Hiler became friends with the literary crowd ofHenry Miller,Sinclair Lewis,Ernest Hemingway, andAnaïs Nin.[4]Miller referred to the man as \"a hilarious painter whom I always think of with hilarious glee.\"[5]Hiler had broad academic, artistic, and social interests; he occupied himself painting interiormurals, performingjazz pianoat nightclubs—often with his pet monkey, studying remote cultures, writing books[6]and magazine articles, designing theater costumes and sets, and carousing with his friends.[1][5]He left Paris in 1934, but not before seeing a therapist to improve his speech and undergoing surgery to make his ears less prominent.

Hiler was also an avid costume book collector, being rumored to own one of the world\'s best costume book libraries at the time of his death. He and his father, Meyer Hiler, jointly compiled aBibliography of Costumein 1939, published throughH. W. Wilson Company.[4]

In 1940 he helped found the Fremont College in Los Angeles, which moved with Hiler toSanta Fein 1944.[7]

After returning to the United States, Hiler was named art director of the bathhouse building at theSan Francisco Aquatic Parkfrom 1936 to 1939, a majorWPAproject for which the bathhouse building (commonly known as the San Francisco Maritime Museum) was to be the centerpiece.[8]In addition to directing the overall design of theStreamline Modernebuilding, he created two full-room murals within the Maritime Museum. The first, in the main hall of the museum, recalls a playful, hallucinogenic dip into a richly populated aquatic landscape, and the other elucidates his color theories in the form of a circular, 120-color spectrum on the ceiling. When Henry Miller saw the aquarium-themed mural, he was so impressed that he considered it to be the only mural worth seeing in the United States.[5]

Miller subsequently asked Hiler to tutor him in art, an experience which influenced his novelBlack Spring.[1]The scenes depicted in the sub-aqueous painting present a fantastical blend architectural elements and mythical creatures, transporting viewers to the lost cities Mu and Atlantis.[5]

Hiler\'s most notable achievements revolved around his study of how color and the human psyche interact. His ceiling mural at the Maritime Museum represents his deduction of 30 sensational—rather than mathematical—color relationships in the form of a wheel, as well as their combinations with black, white, and gray. He titled the room \"The Prismatarium\", as it was intended to open up the world of color to viewers in the same way that aplanetariumopens up the realm of outer space.[2]The Hiler color spectrum varies from the familiarcolor wheelthat developed in the 18th and 19th centuries following SirIsaac Newton\'s documentation of the color proportions found in arainbow.[9]This color wheel presents red, blue, and yellow as theprimary colorssituated opposite theircomplementary colorsof green, orange, and violet, respectively, and the variations between each color could be endless.

By contrast, Hiler\'s spectrum is based on ten color green,green, and leaf green. Each group contains three variations, yielding the 30-step wheel. More steps then this would be indiscernible to the human eye, according to Hiler\'s \"Threshold Theory.\" This theory also dictates the need for proportionally more gradations from violet to blue, and green to yellow. \"Color in painting is a psychological problem, not a problem in physics\", he states in his 1942 bookColor Harmony and Pigments.[10]In other words, the human eye and mind are better prepared to perceive differences in the cool colors than in the warm colors, regardless of the proportion of gradations that may be physically present. Adding to each color black to create \"tones,\" white to create \"hues,\" and gray to create \"shades,\" yields 120 colors that provide an outline for \"every color in the whole world.\"[10]Hiler\'s artwork, including the aquatic mural at the Maritime Museum is directly based on this color foundation.

Throughout his career, Hiler moved more towardsabstractimagery. By the 1940s, his theories on color and abstraction developed into a movement which he termed \"Structuralism.\"[11]

HILAIRE HILER HARZBERG American Painter * c. 1930s EXPATRIATE ARTIST PARIS photo

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