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Adolph Gottlieb (1903 – 1974)


American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor.
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Adolph Gottlieb
I wanted to do something figurative. Well I couldn’t visualize a whole man... I felt that I wanted to make a painting primarily with painterly means. So I flattened out my canvas and made them roughly rectangular divisions, with lines going out in four directions. That is, vertically and horizontally... And then I would free associate, putting whatever came to my mind freely within these different rectangles... I thought of it as related tot the automatic writing the surrealists were interested in.
Gottlieb quotes
To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
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