"He taught me not to judge a work while you're making it. That whole Abstract Expressionist struggle-fighting with the paint, having a hard time, thinking, 'This painting is killing me!' He didn't believe in all that."
Barney ran for the mayoralty of his beloved hometown in 1933 under the self-declared banner of 'the Need for Political Action by Men of Culture', proposing extensive cultural reforms.
My primary theme is the 'suggestive dreams' I experience daily - those vivid dreams where the line between good and bad is blurred. In Korea, there is a superstition that 'selling' (sharing) a bad dream to others makes it lose its power; I find a similar healing through my art by sublimating my dreams into my work.
"The Fine Art and Design sale brings together an exciting selection of works that reflect some of the most enduring ideas in modern and contemporary art. You'll find pieces that explore the human form as a space for storytelling and identity, alongside works that offer nuanced perspectives on sexuality."
In 2024, art collector Christian Levett opened Europe's first museum dedicated to women artists in a little town in the south of France. But for those of us who can't make the trip to the Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, or FAMM), the American Federation of the Arts (AFA) has arranged the next best thing: a blockbuster touring exhibition about women artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement, featuring some of the highlights of the FAMM collection.
Morrison's Abstract Expressionism flouts these cleavages with sumptuous irony: lush, often warm colours that idealise landscapes and urban scenes even as they expose the confrontational realities of displacement, prejudice and survival.
What Arshile Gorky and the other great immigrant observers of America had in common is that each pursued a passion in the modern sense, making art against the grain of commerce, while each underwent a passion in the mythical Greek sense-had some moment of struggle or pain that resolved in art, and, often, in the closest thing artists get to immortality: a place in the collective memory.
