Adolph Gottlieb citations

Adolph Gottlieb, né le 14 mars 1903 à New York et mort le 4 mars 1974 dans la même ville, est un peintre et sculpteur américain, membre fondateur du groupe The Ten créé en 1935.

Gottlieb a étudié les beaux arts à la Parsons The New School for Design de New York.

Il fait partie du mouvement expressionniste abstrait. Il sera fortement influencé par la peinture de Cézanne, de Matisse et de Fernand Léger lors de ses études à Paris. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. mars 1903 – 4. mars 1974
Adolph Gottlieb: 27   citations 0   J'aime

Adolph Gottlieb: Citations en anglais

“I was looking for some sort of systematic way of getting down these subjective images and I had always admired, particularly admired the early Italian painters who proceeded the Renaissance and I very much liked some of the altarpieces in which there would be, for example the story of Christ told in a series of boxes... And it seemed to me this was a very rational method of conveying something. So I decided to try it. But I was not interested in telling, in giving something its chronological sequence. What I wanted to do was give something, to present what material I was interested in simultaneously so that you would get an instantaneous impact from it. So, I made boxes..”

Variante: I was looking for some sort of systematic way of getting down these subjective images and I had always admired, particularly admired the early Italian painters who proceeded the Renaissance and I very much liked some of the altarpieces in which there would be, for example the story of Christ told in a series of boxes... And it seemed to me this was a very rational method of conveying something. So I decided to try it. But I was not interested in telling, in giving something its chronological sequence. What I wanted to do was give something, to present what material I was interested in simultaneously so that you would get an instantaneous impact from it. So I made boxes..
Source: 1960s, Interview with Dorothy Seckler, 1967, p. 55-59.

“In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.”

Radio broadcast with Mark Rothko, 1943, as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990.
1940s

“If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.”

Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 51.
1950s

Auteurs similaires

Khalil Gibran photo
Khalil Gibran 13
poète et peintre libanais
Salvador Dalí photo
Salvador Dalí 44
peintre, sculpteur, graveur, scénariste et écrivain catalan
Jean Cocteau photo
Jean Cocteau 31
écrivain, peintre et réalisateur français
Richard Bach photo
Richard Bach 8
écrivain américain
Kurt Vonnegut photo
Kurt Vonnegut 29
écrivain américain
Jack London photo
Jack London 12
écrivain américain
John Steinbeck photo
John Steinbeck 18
écrivain américain
Maya Angelou photo
Maya Angelou 4
poétesse, actrice et militante américaine
Richard Feynman photo
Richard Feynman 5
physicien américain
Jack Kerouac photo
Jack Kerouac 11
écrivain et poète américain