Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974)

Born in 1903 in New York. Gottlieb received his initial training in New York under John Sloan and Robert Henri. He later traveled and studied throughout Europe before returning to New York in 1930, for his first exhibition of Expressionistic figures and landscapes. Gottlieb was one of the founding members of "The Ten," a group of painters including Mark Rothko who were dedicated to an abstract and Expressionistic style of painting. Gottlieb's early style contained surrealistic overtones derived from Salvador Dali, as well as irrationally circumscribed spaces. By 1941 his mature style began to evolve, which appeared as a rebellion against American realism and European geometric abstraction. His "imaginary landscape" series, that emerged in the years 1951-56, created distinct horizontal divisions of "sky" zones and "ground" zones, each punctuated with intense colors. This series lead into the 1957 "Burst" series where the "sky" and "ground" divisions dissolved into fluid color fields. These were large in size and depicted the ultimate reduction and modification of Gottlieb's art. Solar orbs are suspended hovering in the tension above exploding earth masses and are painted in rich contrast of color the style for which Gottlieb is most widely known.

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Five years after his first exhibition he began collecting primitive sculpture, an interest that would parallel a dimension of his work throughout the following decade.

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