Abstract art from North and South America
Feb 19th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: International, Random Shanghai stuff...The New York Times has an interesting article on abstract painting available online here.
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For all its virtues, such art never found a wide audience. Dismissed as decorative and un-American in the isolationist 1930s, it was all but submerged in the flood tide of Abstract Expressionism. Newark was left with superlative holdings in an art no one knew or cared much about.
Appreciation has grown since and is bound to increase with this show. The inclusion of household names — Alexander Calder, Arshile Gorky, Ad Reinhardt — will help. But it’s the presence of sparkling, less-noticed contemporaries like John Ferren, Raymond Jonson, Alice Trumbull Mason, John McLaughlin, George L. K. Morris and Charmion von Wiegand that turns a history lesson into an event, one that simultaneously broadens and sharpens the profile of American modernism.
