Word: clyfford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Damp Light. Oblivious to fashion and personal fortune, Diebenkorn has often detoured when a less determined painter might have rested on a comfortable plateau of achievement. Under the influence of Clyfford Still and the late David Park, he plunged headlong into Abstract Expressionism while a student at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Then, in 1955, he found himself in something of a bind, as he describes it, bored with splashing color around with the total freedom that abstraction allows. He felt a sudden need for "a kind of constraint," and found it by painting the human...
...poetic, apocalyptic spirit that broods over explicitly surrealistic pictures lingers in the later, totally abstract canvases of these same artists. To emphasize this point, Rothko's Magenta, Black, Green on Orange is placed in a small, partially darkened, melancholy chapel-like gallery, while the spiky Gothic tracery of Clyfford Still's painting, 1947-J shares a gallery with four other Stills-and a spiky Gothic metal sculpture by Theodore Roszak. Gottlieb's cryptic Descending Arrow hovers in a cerise dream world, halfway between traffic sign and sexual symbol...
...younger artists with-dealers. "Let the oldtimers pay for tomorrow," he said. They did. Top price -$37,000-was for Willem de Kooning's 1955 Police Gazette; Barnett Newman's Tundra, consisting of a red horizontal stripe on an orange ground, went for $26,000. A 1951 Clyfford Still garnered $29,000. Mark Rothko's hovering red panel fetched $15,500. Two Franz Klines were bid up to $18000 and $19,000. What about pop? Only one work, Robert Rauschenberg's elaborate montage Express, was put on the block; it was knocked down for a record...
...refuge in the U.S. Motherwell's scholarship and knowledge of French poetry earned the surrealists' admiration; his work attracted Patroness Peggy Guggenheim, then married to Top Surrealist Max Ernst. She promptly proceeded to make him the youngest painter in her stable, which included Pollock, William Baziotes and Clyfford Still...
Last Duchess. Perhaps Peggy's finest moment came during her World War II years in Manhattan, when she opened her now famous "Art of This Century" gallery. There she gave one-man shows to a group of such young unknowns as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, thus foster-mothering the generation that was to make the U.S. a world art power. "Abstract expression began in my gallery," she says. "You couldn't explain it. It was like a sudden burst of flame." Peggy fed the fire as long as she could resist...