Word: hultberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just out of the Navy, John Hultberg in 1947 enrolled in San Francisco's California School of Fine Arts, and it seemed that artistically there was only one course for him to steer. Abstractionism was the powerful new movement, and some of its most famous practitioners-notably Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko-were his teachers. Hultberg has nothing but admiration for these men-but purely abstract painting...
...proves in his latest one-man show at Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery. Hultberg has developed a way of painting that places him in the ranks of today's artistic funambulists, who walk the tightrope between schools. Quickly glimpsed, his paintings seem abstract; on inspection they turn out to be landscapes in which windows, doors, bits of floor, ship or building fill up the foreground while behind them stretches an endless sea. a distant city, a darkened wasteland. His titles-Death and Transfiguration, Edge of a City, At the Border-are slapped on afterward. The surrealist finds themes...