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...arrival at the school of Clyttord Still and later Mark Rothko were the catalysts in this conversion, but Park himself was already concerned with "big abstract ideals like vitality, energy, profundity warmth." His own abstractions, as his 'friend, Painter Elmer Bischoff, describes them, were "goopy, sensuous arrangements of forms," but ironically, Park never found in goopiness the freedom that other artists did. Instead of losing himself in his work, he became overly concerned with style and technique. "I was artificially putting together forms," he said. And so in 1950, Park painted a figurative picture called Kids on Bikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Up from Goopiness | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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