Topic: Arshile Gorky

Katina Huston turns shadows into allusive images

0 . The tracing of cast shadows probably goes back to the forgotten origins of pictorial representation. That possibility lends the device, in...

How I Met Your Mother

I can't think of any artist who suffered as much in his life as Arshile Gorky. At the Cezanne and Beyond exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art last year, Taylor counted Gorky among Cezanne's children, calling Gorky's works ...
On 11 March, 2010, the U.S. Postal service issued a pane of 10 U.S. postage stamps featuring the art of America's most prominent abstract expressionists. One of the commemorative stamps on the Abstract Expressionists pane features perhaps the most ...

Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism is a school of art characterized by a high degree of emphasis on the expressive qualities of paint and other materials in their application to canvas. " The "Club" included Jackson Pollock, who in 1946 began his famous exuberant and unconventional ...
In March 2010, the United States Postal Service issued 44 cent stamps with images from ten paintings by abstract expressionists. How appropriate for the U.S. Postal Service to pay homage to these amazing artists who truly blazed new trails in the ...
Review by Martin Gayford[Bloomberg] -- Vincent van Gogh's letters and Irving Penn's portraits of Nicole Kidman and Marlene Dietrich will be among star exhibits at European art shows in 2010.Van Gogh once more steps into the limelight in a ...

ARSHILE GORKY: A Retrospective

"I was with Cezanne for a long time," said Gorky, "and now naturally I am with Picasso. In his 1977 memoir, dealer Julien Levy enshrined what was to be an enduring myth of painter Arshile Gorky's career: with its harlequin pattern ...

Automatism

automatism, technique first used by Surrealist painters and poets to express the creative force of the unconscious in art.. Little of lasting value remains from the Surrealists' attempts at "automatic" writing, however.. Andre Masson, Arshile Gorky, and Max Ernst, in particular, experimented ...

Matta: Five Decades Of Painting

This exhibition of fifteen oil paintings by Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren is the first major show of the artist's work in New York City since a 1957 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Born in Chile on November 11 ...

Nice Work, If You Can Get It

Don't feel too bad for Richard at least until the end of this year--of once-mighty Lehman Brothers. Take, for example, the sale earlier this month at Christie's of 16 works of art owned by Fuld and his wife, Kathy. Christie ...