Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974)
阿道夫·戈特利布

夏天 #2

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美國 紐約 阿道夫和以斯帖·戈特利布基金會
美國 洛杉磯 曼尼•西爾弗曼畫廊
現藏者購自上述畫廊
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1965年5月-7月「Actitudes plastic: Selección de artistas contemporáneous de Estados Unidos y México」墨西哥國立自治大學 墨西哥城 墨西哥
1989年10月–12月「Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions」羅偉藝術博物館 邁阿密;Terra美國藝術博物館 芝加哥;簡•沃利斯•齊默裡藝術博物館 羅格斯大學 新布朗斯維克;惠特尼美國藝術博物館 紐約 美國 (圖版,第42及第98頁36圖)
1995年4月-6月「 Adolph Gottlieb: Small Images Spanning Four Decades」曼尼•西爾弗曼畫廊 洛杉磯 美國(圖版,第17頁)

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Radiating with power and vibrancy, Gottlieb's Summer #2 (Lot 24) is an essential painting by the Abstract Expressionist painter, Adolf Gottlieb. In the 1964 work, the artist suspends his signature orb above an inky and gestural paint. Reducing his painted marks to their formal essence, Gottlieb creates an evocatively elemental composition with graphic and chromatic punch. Summer #2 recalls the words of art critic Lawrence Alloway, who said, "Gottlieb's balance of surface and mark, field and gesture, has no parallel among his contemporaries" (L. Alloway, "Adolph Gottlieb and Abstract Painting," Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., p. 54).

In Summer #2, both compositional elements radiate with an intensity that seems to exceed their physical boundaries: while the upper disc pulses with energy, the calligraphic surge of paint below exhibits a sense of power and spontaneity. Observing his frequent use of red and black tones, Gottlieb remarked, "I feel that I use color in terms of an emotional quality... a vehicle for the expression of feeling. Now what this feeling is, is something I probably can't define, but since I eliminated almost everything from my painting except a few colors and perhaps two or three shapes, I feel a necessity for making the particular colors that I use, or the particular shapes, carry the burden of everything that I want to express, and all has to be concentrated within these few elements. Therefore, the color has to carry the burden of this effort" (A. Gottlieb, "Selected Writings," The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., www.gottliebfoundation.org). The work's abstract forms reverberate with the tension of the Atomic Age with its glowing blood-red orb radiating above a massive force field, at the same time setting against an apocalyptic hue. As it captures the intense zeitgeist of the time, Summer #2 also generates universal associations through its binary form, bringing to mind the mythological clash of Apollonian and Dionysian forces or the eternal cycle of creation and destruction. In Summer #2, Gottlieb generates an elemental tension between them that is virtually electric.

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