Arshile Gorky: a Retrospective of Drawings.WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). Arshile Gorky Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, (better known as Arshile Gorky) (April 15, 1904? – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian and an American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. Biography Gorky was born in the village of Khorkom near Van, Turkey. has generally been regarded as among the first Abstract Expressionists, and hence a paradigm-breaking innovator, but his art was deeply rooted in a devotion to the old masters (Cezanne, Picasso, and Miro) that bordered on impersonation Impersonation Patroclus wore the armor of Achilles against the Trojans to encourage the disheartened Greeks. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Prisoner of Zenda, The and an emphasis on well-rehearsed displays of technical virtuosity. Gorky was unrivaled in his patently erotic longing for aesthetic release--and greatness. This 140-work exhibition, curated by the Whitney's Janie C. Lee and Gorky scholar Melvin P. Lader, should make for good critical sport for those reconsidering the myth of AbEx from the vantage of Gorky's maverick traditionalism, but the immediate and preternaturally pre·ter·nat·u·ral adj. 1. Out of or being beyond the normal course of nature; differing from the natural. 2. Surpassing the normal or usual; extraordinary: enduring satisfactions are those of sex in a pen and sex in a pencil. Nov. 20-Feb. 15. |
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