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Gottlieb paintings,1945-1974/35048000769388  \n# WITHDRAWN\n\nDATE DUE  \n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n|  |  |\n| SEf   |  |\n| 女927   |  |\n| 1.20/rtuw   |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n|  |  |\n\nDEMCO,INC.38-2931  \n1000  \nD759.13TT人1EB  \nAdolph Gottlieb  \nPaintings 1945-1974  \nEssay by Irving Sandler  \nAndré Emmerich Gallery  \n41 East 57th Street,New York  \nFebruary 1977  \nBHPL ART RESEARCH LIBRARY  \nOCLC  \n000.  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/andreemmerichgal0000unse  \nPearl Harbor ushered in Adolph Gottlieb's series of primitivizing \"pictographs.\"The desperate events of World War ll caused him and his friend Mark Rothko tolook for inspiration to mythology and archaic art.Primitive culture revealed theimmediacy of powerful forces,of terror and fear,brutality and insecurity,asGottlieb said in 1943.\"That these feelings are being experienced by many peoplethroughout the world today is an unfortunate fact,and to us an art that glossesover or evades these feelings is superficial or meaningless.\"  \nAlthough Gottlieb and Rothko were moved by despair to change their stylesradically,it did not cause them to stop painting or to put their art in the service ofsocial causes,as most realists then did.The two painters remained dedicated toart and ts values,and although they turned to a new subject matter because itfelt true to their experience (and as it turned out,to their generation's),as artiststhey were quickly aware that primitivism showed one way out of the impasseAmerican painting found itself in during the early forties.That is,the dominant\"isms\"of the preceding decade—social protest and regionalist realism,and sur-realist llusionism,and in advanced art,geometric abstraction—had all becomeused up,and drearily so  \nFor Gottlieb and Rothko,who had been tutored by the modernist painter MiltonAvery,provincial realist styles had become too academic in technique and tooinsular in attitude to be of much concern.On the other hand,cubist-inspired ab-straction was taken seriously,but Gottlieb strongly questioned its pertinence.Geometric abstraction had once had visionary aspirations,but it had becomeprimarily a matter of the \"niceties\"of formal arrangement;its \"emphasis on themechanics of picture making has been carried far enough.\"Other contempo-raries of Gottlieb and Rothko,notably Jackson Pollock,Clyfford Still,WilliamBaziotes,Theodoros Stamos,Barnett Newman,and Hans Hofmann(for a periodaround 1943-44)all shared a similar outlook and ventured in the same direction,to such a degree that the years from roughly 1942 to 1947 have often been la-belled the myth-making period of abstract expressionism.  \nMuch as Gottlieb sought to bypass outworn styles,he would not sacrifice anyof their aspirations:abstract cubism's will to pictorial structure;surrealism'squest for psychic truths arrived at spontaneously,that is,in an automatist man-ner;and even regionalism's search for native subject matter.In fact,the \"pic-tographs,\"e.g.,The Enchanted Ones(1945)and Labyrinth,No.2(1950),synthesize these diverse aims.The design is an asymmetrical,rectilinear grid,reminiscent of Mondrian's neoplasticism,but freely drawn.And unlike Mondrian,Gottlieb filled his compartments with flat(thus modernist)figurative detailsand abstract symbols and signs—eyes,teeth,eggs or ovals,arrows,snake-likewriggles—that call to mind ancient hieroglyphics and other primitive themes—African,Oceanic,Eskimo,and particularly Northwest Coast Indian,most likelybecause the latter is American.Moreover,the dark earth,clay,and weatheredbark and wood colors favored by Gottlieb,notably in the earlier \"pictographs,\"seem to have been derived from Indian masks and totems.Finally,Gottlieb useda free-associational,automatist method to improvise cryptic images and juxta-pose them in dissociated 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