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Adolph Gottlieb

Adolph Gottlieb (1903 - 1974) was active/lived in New York.  Adolph Gottlieb is known for Primitive painting-totemic non objective and realism.

Born in New York City in 1903, Adolph Gottlieb was a founding member of The Ten, a group devoted to abstract art with whom he was active for about five years.  He became a major exponent of Abstract Expressionism whose painting style is linked to Marc Rothko, Clyfford Still and Barnet Newman.  A major theme in Gottlieb's painting is the challenge to humans to resolve dualities within the universe, the pressure of opposites: male and female, chaos and order, creation and destruction, order and chaos.

His career is described as having four phases: Pictographs (1940s), Grids and Imaginary Landscapes (1951 to 1957), Bursts (1957 to 1974) and Imaginary Landscapes (1960s).  Although he lived primarily in New York City and was one of the few Abstract Expressionists born in that city, time spent in Arizona and Provincetown, Massachusetts had a marked influence on him.

Gottlieb studied at the Art Students League with Social Realists John Sloan and Rob   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7988 characters.]  Artist bio

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