Exhibit celebrates abstract expressionist Burkhardt's art Jul 29, 2008
"A Swiss immigrant, Burkhardt learned the fundamentals of his craft in the 1920s and 1930s at the shoulders of Arshile Gorky, a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. It was a rare heritage that he shared with artist Willem de Kooning.When Burkhardt moved to Los Angeles in 1937, he represented "the most significant bridge" between New York's and Los Angeles' art communities, according to art gallery owner Jack Rutberg, a longtime Burkhardt friend and supporter. Burkhardt also spent time in... (Los Angeles Daily News)
Enrico Donati, 99; sculptor considered last of Surrealists May 2, 2008
The group included Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, Arshile Gorky, Marcel Duchamp, and sculptor Alexander Calder. "We met for lunch every day at Larre's French restaurant on West 56th Street," Mr. Donati later said. (Boston Globe)
Review: Painter Diebenkorn found inspiration in New Mexico desert Oct 19, 2007
Critics persist in referring to Diebenkorn's early work as "abstract expressionism." It does indeed respond to the art of older figures of the New York School, such as Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and Arshile Gorky (1904-1948). But Diebenkorn's New Mexico-period work pretty consistently lacks the sense of emotional eruption that might justify calling it expressionistic. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Latin American masters of soulful straight lines Sep 15, 2007
These ideas influence local talents like Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. New York overtakes Paris as the capital of art, setting the stage for Pop, Minimalism and beyond. (International Herald Tribune)
Sneak Peek At Walker's Pablo Picasso Exhibit Jun 14, 2007
"A great chance to see Pollock, to see de Kooning, to see Arshile Gorky, to see Lichtenstein, Warhol. So it's really kind of a 'Who's Who' in American art in a way.". Looking at Picasso's works, people can see a big range of art, not just the cubism for which he's famous. (WCCO.com, MN)
Andy Warhol Painting Sells for $71 Million May 18, 2007
4 million; an Arshile Gorky painting, "Khorkom," that went for about $4. 2 million; and a Cindy Sherman photograph, "Untitled No. 92," bought for about $2. (Newsmax)
Woodbury Surrealist Revisited by the Mattatuck Apr 27, 2007
Among them was the painter Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), who lived in Sherman. One of his works is in the exhibition, along with five by Mr. Tanguy. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
A Vivid Account Mar 3, 2007
REVIEW / SFMOMA exhibition demonstrates how large Picasso loomed over American art. " It sends the visitor away with a sense of every modern artwork as the product of many minds, however many hands may have formed it. Picasso and American Art: Paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Through May 28. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco. (415) 357-4000, . E-mail Kenneth Baker at . This article appeared on page E - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle FromColma Buick... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Picasso's Influence On American Artists Jan 22, 2007
One of Picasso's greatest disciples in this country was Arshile Gorky. Gorky understood the great variety of Picasso's styles and could imitate them and transform them more diversely than any of the other artists. (CBS News)
The afterlife of influence Jan 1, 2007
PABLO PICASSO'S spell over 20th-century art can perhaps be summed up in five words spoken by the Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky in 1934 ... This early mix of European sophistication and American energy sets the stage for the trio of migr s -- Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and John Graham -- who would translate Picasso's ideas into the first truly influential school of American painting, Abstract Expressionism, in the 1940s. (Boston Globe)
Roy Newell, 92, noted abstract painter Dec 4, 2006
They were both among the founders of the Eighth Street Artists' Club, which featured such other famous painters as Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, and Phillip Pavia. But he was a deliberate worker who rarely displayed his paintings. (Boston Globe)
MODERN LEADER Nov 27, 2006
Paintings by such icons as Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky and Mark Rothko, plus work by artists prominent in the 1970s and '80s, were shown in ingenious displays alongside examples from young and mid-career abstractionists to sometimes electrifying effect. And in the 2004 pairing of "Bodily Space" and "Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession," the tame old idea of compare-and-contrast was given a new, sometimes shocking, spin. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Schiele painting to leave UM soon Nov 25, 2006
That collector, who over the past two years has lent paintings by Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky and Franz Kline to the university for display, was not the same person who bought the Schiele painting; however, he was nstrumental in encouraging the buyer of the Schiele painting to loan the work to the University of Montana, said Barb Koostra, director of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture. The painting was accompanied on its trip to Missoula by another major work, Anselm Kiefer's 1996... (Missoulian, MT)
Warhol auction sets fresh record Nov 17, 2006
Records were also set for works by Richard Diebenkorn, Louise Bourgeois, Arshile Gorky and Gerhard Richter. "Tonight's sale caps an incredible two weeks at Christie's where we have seen record totals and unprecedented depth in the market in all fields," the auction house's chief executive, Edward Dolman, told news agency AFP.. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Warhol record caps off auctions' billion-dollar bonanza Nov 16, 2006
Records also fell for a host of well known artists including Richard Diebenkorn, Gerhard Richter, sculptress Louise Bourgeois and Arshile Gorky. De Kooning's Woman (Seated Woman I) sold for $US9,648,000, more than twice the high estimate and far exceeding the artist's old record for a work on paper of $US3. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Offbeat)
Geffen's other dream works Nov 11, 2006
" Searching for clues With Geffen mum and most non-auction art deals conducted without public scrutiny, Geffen's precise holdings remain fodder for speculation. But not every move has been cloaked. For a 1998 New Yorker profile, writer John Seabrook visited Geffen's Beverly Hills home Geffen also has a Malibu place and a Manhattan apartment and sighted a Pollock, a De Kooning, an Arshile Gorky, a Rauschenberg, one Johns in the hall and another in the master bedroom. In 2003, Artnews magazine... (Los Angeles Times)
Influence, Cubed Sep 28, 2006
Some similarities are clearer than others - both Warhol and Arshile Gorky virtually copied Picasso, in some instances - but others are more fanciful, like Tom Wesselman's 1963 "Still Life #30," complete with pink refrigerator door, plastic flowers and 7 Up bottles. And while Spain was understandably loath to lend the anti-war masterpiece "Guernica" - with its tortured figures of the innocent victims of Spain's Civil War - we do see a photograph of it, alongside Pollock's variations on the theme. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
St Kilda, and the Mexican wave Jul 19, 2006
Not always fun and games: A detail of Saint Kilda in the Desert. The suburb of St Kilda is an unlikely muse for Mexican artist Roberto Marquez, writes Larry Schwartz. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Distillations of colour and chaos Jun 23, 2006
It recalls Russian icons, but you see too how its nervy, tense, balanced dissonance anticipates Arshile Gorky another eastern artist, from Armenia and, via his exile to America, Jackson Pollock. Yet in Moscow, where Kandinsky returned at the outbreak of the first world war as an enemy alien he had 24 hours to leave Germany the souls flutterings soon looked dangerously bourgeois. (Financial Times)
Here's to the ladies Jun 19, 2006
But in this round of exhibitions, the museum -- which is just coming off its popular Arshile Gorky show, its biggest ever -- is doing something a little different. Six separate exhibitions are linked not so much by the sex of the artists (although there are many women represented) as the subject matter. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
The shapes of things to come May 22, 2006
"Pulp Modernism" continues through June 4 at the museum along with several other exhibitions, including the not-to-miss Arshile Gorky show that is one of the institution's most impressive to date. Details: (559) 441-4221 or. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Artist's life was a paradox Apr 19, 2006
Nouritza Matossian stages a one-woman show on the life and art of Arshile Gorky ... Arshile Gorky wasn't born with that name ... That dual identity always fascinated Nouritza Matossian, a British writer and actress, whose biography, "Black Angel, The Life of Arshile Gorky" was published in 2000. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
