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...sort of deathwatch had settled over the art world as it observed, at a distance, the slow sinking of the last Abstract Expressionist. Now they were all definitively gone, the artists who put American art on the world map after 1945: Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and the transplanted Dutchman who jumped ship into the New World in 1926 and settled in New York as an illegal alien. Fortunately for American art, the immigration officials never caught up with de Kooning...
Hopper gives us a created world, not one that is merely recorded. Everything in it is shaped by memory, sympathy, distance and formal imperatives. Nothing is there merely because it "was there." Mark Rothko hated diagonals, but loved Hopper's. Richard Diebenkorn loved diagonals and loved Hopper's too. As well anyone might: the diagonal, the slanting patch (especially of light) becomes a wonderfully expressive element in Hopper, acting both as a structural brace for the actual painted surface and as a sign of fugitive reality in imagined space. In Morning Sun, 1952, you are acutely aware that...
...Rothko's "Untitled (Blue, Green)," Whistler's "Nocturne in Blue and Silver, No. 1," and Feininger's "Bird Cloud" are tucked in a pristine white oasis at the heart of the exhibition. They are presented like a stage set depicting display techniques in a modern museum. The paintings, all modern and somewhat abstract in tones of blue, crystallize the value of Cultures and Contexts. They are presented on white walls without the helpful explanations, without accompanying cultural artifacts, yet carry themselves with the solitary dignity of true masterpieces. There is a rising debate in American museums about the validity...
...always biographies. They are at least 650 pages long, with a minimum of 100 pages of end-notes. The author has spent a minimum of 12 years in the archives researching his subject. Fat True Books can be about political types (Henry Kissinger, Chairman Mao) or artistic types (Mark Rothko, Marlon Brando). They need not be about anyone you've ever heard...
When "the most comprehensive single-artist museum in the United States," as it describes itself, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 16, to whom will it be devoted? Mark Rothko? Jackson Pollock? No -- Andy Warhol. Housed in an industrial building that cost $12.3 million to renovate, the Andy Warhol Museum will display 500 Warhols on six floors and hold 2,500 more in its permanent collection. A theater will show Warhol films, and copies of Interview will be available in an archive...