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low, suggesting an eclipse.
This body of work introduces the
notion of opposing forces, like day
the first of the Abstract Expressionists
to paint a major series of related works and night, male and female, sun and
earth, life and death, which also char-
that were variations on a basic compo-
acterize the Burst paintings.
sitional mode.
In the Burst paintings, for which
One of the largest canvases in the
Gottlieb is best known, the artist
exhibit is Labyrinth No. 3, part of a
changes the horizontal landscape to a
body of work reflecting the influence
vertical format. Each Burst canvas
of Jackson Pollock's mammoth drip
consists of two forms; the lower is
paintings.
black and choppy, while the upper is
Large canvases, an offshoot of mural
round and smooth and surrounded by
painting, became the vogue of the
Abstract Expressionists, who came into a halo.
The Imaginary
their own in the years 1947 50
Landscape and Burst can-
after many of the Surrealist
"Mariner's
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vases remained the touch-
exiles returned to Europe.
Incantation,
stones of Gottlieb's later
1945, oil,
gouache, tempura, work, from 1960 until his
Later Work
death in 1974.
casein on canvas,
Clement Greenberg,
A group of works called
is part of Gottlieb's
the pre-eminent art critic
"Imaginary Landscapes" illus-
Pictograph series.
of Gottlieb's time, consid-
trates Gottlieb's ongoing search
ered use of color
for simplification and pure
Gottlieb's finest characteristic.
form that reached its zenith in his
For Gottlieb, color was not an ele-
"Burst") paintings.
ment of design but a means of express-
With Imaginary Landscapes, the
ing feeling and emotion. Indeed,
grid motif gives way to a painting
Gottlieb's stark color fields of primary
divided into two parts; the division of
hues endow his Imaginary Landscape
the canvas suggests a horizon dividing
and Burst paintings with pristine beauty.
land and sky.
In 1970, Gottlieb suffered a stroke
Ochre and Black features an agitated
that left him paralyzed- in all but one
tan mass at the bottom of the canvas,
arm. No longer able to walk independ-
symbolic of earth, and is contrasted
ently, he was confined to a wheelchair
with two round forms above, one of
and had to rely on assistants.
which is surrounded by a halo of yel-
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