Word: guston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also featured are a light, airy-hued canvas by Philip Guston--a lesser abstract expressionist but a very good work of his and William Baziotes' "Bird of Paradise" executed in 1947. Ad Reinhardt also manages to slip into the show with an untitled work done...
...Hayden Gallery exhibition of drawings by Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock, Line, and Guston is a pleasant exception to the rule. These five painters have been labeled Abstract Impressionists because they broke with the traditions of Cubism and Mondrian aesthetics by eliminating concrete forms and images from their work. Pollock, for example, is best known for paintings made by squirting paint out of tubes directly onto a canvas on the floor. For him, the act of releasing paint itself constitutes a valid artistic statement...
Kline's outlook on both painting and drawing is very different. His reputation is based on the development of a broad swinging stroke that varies in texture--in Rocker he reduces a chair to its fundamental elements with a few diagonal and horizontal black strokes. Some of Guston's single stroke drawings make use of a similar technique...
...characteristic thick black strokes to suggest a face in Nijinsky. The same economy of line makes his more traditional drawing, David Orr's Mother, just as intriguing. Although most of the page is blank, Kline chooses lines that make the white areas play an integral role in the portrait. Guston, in Untitled, 1953, and Drawing No. 19 uses contrast in the quality of his strokes to create the illusion of depth in his shapes...
...Hayden Gallery has put on a show of Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters. Abstract Expressionism as a movement put American art in the top position it has today, but these five painters--Gorky, Guston, Kline, deKooning and Pollack--would be outstanding even If they hadn't formed a style. The drawings are very different from their plantings, but just as visually exciting, and this show shouldn't be missed. The gallery's at 160 Memorial Drive, daily 10-4, Tuesdays also 6-9, through March...