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Returning from last spring's show to the current exhibit, a painting called Eighth Loosha typifies the best in Olitski's work. The canvas is a large rectangle, slightly higher than it is wide. In its center is an area of rich purple, built up from layers of sprayed acrylic...
TO PAINT a picture like this required Olitski to paint his way through years of difficulty. The earliest paintings included in the show are a whole room full of small works which look like abstract expressionist paintings, but were executed by building up the surface as much as three inches...
These works, executed during the fifties are followed by a totally different type of canvases, stained with multiple circles and enclosing arcs. The colors are simple, usually those of unmixed acrylics on raw canvas. Resemblances to the work of Gottlieb and Louis are clear...
Olitski's "break-through" -- the sudden leap from mediocre early work so characteristic of modern painting -- occurs in 1964 with paintings like Deep Drag. Here Olitski turns to a rectilinear ordering of the forms: the circles are still there, but they have been driven to the edges where they interact...
At a base movie theater in Saigon, amidst dormant popcorn machines and the empty "coming attraction" windows that had once trumpeted the derring-do of the Green Berets, some 200 soldiers, secretaries and journalists listened to the disembodied voice of an Army public affairs officer hidden behind a stage curtain...