Oli sihvonen biography sample
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Blues of representation Broken Gate
Marek Delong & Anna Slama, Eetu Sihvonen
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- 💙 Holešovická šachta
- 💚 Tina Poliačková & Lumír Nykl
- 🖤 Marek Delong & Anna Slama, Eetu Sihvonen
- 💜 Tina Poliačková & Lumír Nykl
- 💛 Jakub Hájek
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Oli Sihvonen"The Secrets in the Circle, " Oli Sihvonen, Blue and Red Hard-Edge Geometric1962
1962
"Untitled, " Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Colorful Abstract, Female Artist
By Amaranth Ehrenhalt
Located in New York, NY
Amaranth Ehrenhalt Untitled, 1994 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches Provenance: Private Collection, Long Island Amaranth Ehrenhalt was born in 1928 in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in a Jewish family in Philadelphia. She loved painting from an early age and was soon placed in the “creatively gifted” Saturday morning program at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She carried on with a full-tuition scholarship at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she graduated in 1951 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In parallel, she attended an art history class at the Barnes Foundation one afternoon per week. After graduation, Ehrenhalt was determined to travel to Paris and from there hitchhiked to Morocco, painting her impressions in her sketchbook as she went. She continued to Rome, where she taught English and continued to paint. Upon her return to the United States, Ehrenhalt settled in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York. Her nights were spent at the Cedar Tavern where she met Abstract Expressionist artists such as Franz
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Gesture Then and Now: The Legacy of Abstract Expressionism
THE Magazine, April 2014
Richard Tobin
The seeds were first sown in Arshile Gorky's garden in Sochi.
Abstract Expressionism was the hybrid fruit of Gorky’s synthetic efforts, as Irving Sandler wrote, to “fuse Synthetic Cubist structure with Surrealist atmosphere and biomorphism.” From the lyric, dark grisaille of Gorky’s inner landscapes it grew to epic stature: In 1952 art critic Harold Rosenberg observed that “at a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act, rather than as a space in which to… ‘express’ an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.” And as early as 1943 the principal tenet that was to distinguish the new abstraction from earlier, pre-war abstract art was clearly formed, as evidenced in a brief “manifesto” of the rising movement crafted by Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman for The New York Times in response to a negative review of the new style: “There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. We assert that the subject is crucial, and only that subject-matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.”
Tragic and timeless. Since its hegemony in the 1940s and 1950s