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Please contact agapistudos@hotmail.com for more information on NEW Work for fall. All work shown is 14 x 17 done on hot press archival paper.
Imagine if you will a world filled with post renaissance work, Madonna and child, an eloquent Victorian lady in a scene perhaps the illuminating painting of Monet or Van Gogh to seize upon.
Fresh out of the war and into a new idea of American Importance comes Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell to name a few. Flash forward here we are in American in the 1940’s fresh out of the depression to end all depressions and World War 2. Enter Peggy Guggenheim.
This is New York in 1942 where Peggy Guggenheim established the Museum of Modern Art named after her Uncle. With a thrill for the unusual and a absolute passion for abstract art, New York became the entreated hub for the New form of work called Abstract Impressionism.
“They worked large and they worked messily, recklessly. Pollock “broke the ice,” de Kooning would say.”
In fact Pollack was given supreme prestige for his work, a position garnered without the intense presence or nod from “the old school.” America/Pollack, were creating their own identity and staking a claim on art that no other place in the world could. For This Pollock earned a supreme and undeniable place in history.
The great mystery of unlocking a door no person had ever unlocked in the art world … that honor went not only to his friends but also to Pollack who seized the essence of this unique form of expression and laid it down on the canvas. In this process his friends and colleagues also imparted their own vision in the wake of knowledge unknown to artists before.
Notorious for his drinking problem and his struggle with alcoholism, Pollock crashed his car August 11, 1956 and died near his New York home.
"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was." Jackson Pollock
Imagine if you will a world filled with post renaissance work, Madonna and child, an eloquent Victorian lady in a scene perhaps the illuminating painting of Monet or Van Gogh to seize upon.
Fresh out of the war and into a new idea of American Importance comes Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell to name a few. Flash forward here we are in American in the 1940’s fresh out of the depression to end all depressions and World War 2. Enter Peggy Guggenheim.
This is New York in 1942 where Peggy Guggenheim established the Museum of Modern Art named after her. With a thrill for the unusual and a absolute passion for abstract art, New York became the entreated hub for the New form of work called Abstract Impressionism.
“They worked large and they worked messily, recklessly. Pollock “broke the ice,” de Kooning would say.”
In fact Pollack was given supreme prestige for his work, a position garnered without the intense presence or nod from “the old school.” America/Pollack, were creating their own identity and staking an art claim that no other place in the world could claim credit for. For This Pollack earned a supreme and undeniable place in history.
The great mystery of unlocking a door no person had ever unlocked in the art world … that honor went not only to his friends but to Pollack who seiged the essence of this unique form of expression and laid it down on the canvas. In this process his friends and colleagues also imparted their own vision in the wake of this knowledge unknown to artists before.
Nortorious for his drinking problem and his struggle with alcoholism, Pollock crashed his car August 11, 1956 and died near his New York home.
"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was." Jackson Pollock
Robert Motherwell …..
Robert Motherwell born Jan 1915 and living until July of 1991 was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. He was one of the youngest of the New York School which included Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko, Willem De Kooning and Phillip Guston.
Robert’s gift for rhetoric and easy comfortable feeling around people is credited with placing him on the map. Though others in his group who later became as famous, might not have been had Motherwell not been so engaging with groups.
His writing and three published books:
are all considered a credit to his ability to engage the average reader and not just the art critic.
To me his gift as a printmaker served him very well as a painter and he was able to glean techniquest and improvise on the canvas creating almost cinamographic images with his paint. His work is beautifully fluid and yet eloquently simple and moving at the same time.
