Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hartley was the first American to grasp the power of German expressionism, immediately adapted the experiments of Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc to his own ends. His German Officer (opposite) is as tumultuous as anything painted before World War II, though not so bold as today's abstract expressionism...
...teacher, opened his own art school in Manhattan in 1934. Five years later he produced Red Trickle, which Dealer Sam Kootz calls the first application of the drip technique to painting. His art and thought have done as much as any man's to shape today's abstract expressionism, though never did an elderly, experienced and serious-minded teacher manage to seem so untaught...
...Piero taught him that art needs no gestures, that it can be pure, precise and silent as a frozen birdbath and still live forever. Photography taught him, as he says, that "light is the great designer." He developed a "growing belief that pictures realistically conceived might have an underlying abstract structure." That belief did not become a certainty until middle age; once arrived at, it led him to do great things...
...choices if they were to continue as artists: get out of Germany or go underground. Painters Paul Klee, George Grosz, Josef Albers and Architect Walter Gropius managed to escape; one of the few who chose to remain and survived is Fritz Winter, today rated as Germany's leading abstract-expressionist. To celebrate Winter's 50th birthday, Munich's Günther Franke Gallery is staging a showing of 46 of his paintings, ranging from 1929 to the present. The Munich retrospective, and a current exhibition now on display at Chicago's Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, show that...
Morris draws a sharp line between his own abstractions, with recognizable objects looming out of the background, and the prevailing trend of Manhattan's abstract painters. To Morris, their delight in overall painted surfaces "is like looking into a window loaded with fascinating, kaleidoscopic objects. But in multiplying one area of excitement until it moves right off the canvas, they're not painting abstractions; they're just repeating details...