Frases de Adolph Gottlieb

Adolph Gottlieb foi um pintor do expressionismo abstrato e escultor estadunidense.

Aos 17 anos entrou na Liga de Estudantes de Arte de Nova Iorque. Depois disso Adolph viajou à Alemanha e França por um ano. Em Paris ele estudou na Academia da Grande Chaumière. Ao retornar, ele se tornou um conhecido artista e professor em Nova Iorque. Graças às suas obras, Adolph Gottlieb é conhecido como um importante pintor do expressionismo abstrato. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Março 1903 – 4. Março 1974
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Adolph Gottlieb: Frases em inglês

“I was looking for some sort of systematic way of getting down these subjective images and I had always admired, particularly admired the early Italian painters who proceeded the Renaissance and I very much liked some of the altarpieces in which there would be, for example the story of Christ told in a series of boxes... And it seemed to me this was a very rational method of conveying something. So I decided to try it. But I was not interested in telling, in giving something its chronological sequence. What I wanted to do was give something, to present what material I was interested in simultaneously so that you would get an instantaneous impact from it. So, I made boxes..”

Variante: I was looking for some sort of systematic way of getting down these subjective images and I had always admired, particularly admired the early Italian painters who proceeded the Renaissance and I very much liked some of the altarpieces in which there would be, for example the story of Christ told in a series of boxes... And it seemed to me this was a very rational method of conveying something. So I decided to try it. But I was not interested in telling, in giving something its chronological sequence. What I wanted to do was give something, to present what material I was interested in simultaneously so that you would get an instantaneous impact from it. So I made boxes..
Fonte: 1960s, Interview with Dorothy Seckler, 1967, p. 55-59.

“In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.”

Radio broadcast with Mark Rothko, 1943, as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990.
1940s

“If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.”

Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 51.
1950s