Adolph Gottlieb
1903-1974
American Modern Abstract Expressionist Artist
Influences: Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Surrealism, and Milton Avery
Education - Art Students League of New York and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France
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Adolph Gottlieb Quotes
"When I was a boy studying art I became aware of and accepted the difficulties of the modern artist. By the age of 18 I clearly understood that the artist in our society cannot expect to make a living from art; must live in the midst of a hostile environment; cannot communicate through his art with more than a few people; and if his work is significant, cannot achieve recognition until the end of his life, if he is lucky, and more likely posthumously." -- Adolph Gottlieb
The Abstract Expressionist Movement
Russian artist
Wassily
Kandinsky is considered as the father of abstract art. In 1910
he exhibited the first totally abstract painting - a mysterious
and sensual watercolor.
Abstract art is based upon the idea that the spiritual and emotional
aspect of art must be unchained from the figurative form. The
movement was a rebellion against overwrought portraiture and trite
historical themes. The artists dissociated themselves from
representational art and emphasized emotional colors, non-objective
forms, structure and composition. Abstractionists painted for themselves
creating art for arts sake. They worked only from an inner vision and
applied paint in a loose, vigorous manner creating beautiful
intellectual poems. Abstract Expressionism is a movement that grew
out of the abstract style, originating in the United States in after
World War II. Painters created vivid art-works in many diverse styles,
using a variety of mediums. They emphasized uninhibited personal
expression on very large canvases.
Key terms associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement - non-objective, modernism, non representational art, action painting, automatism, individualism, unconscious determinants, contemporary, colour navigation, avant-garde, emotionalism, post-modernism, art concrete, psychoanalysis, inner psyche
Major Painters of the Abstract Expressionist Movement
Helen Frankenthaler
Willem de Kooning
Arshile Gorky
Adolph Gottlieb
Hans Hofmann
Jasper Johns
Franz Kline
Jackson Pollock
Mark
Rothko
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