GORKY WORK TO BE FEATURED ON US STAMP
Asbarez
Jan 14th, 2010
WASHINGTON-Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky’s 1944 painting
"The Liver in a Cock’s Comb," will be the first of a series of stamps
being unveiled on March 11 by the US Postal Service honoring abstract
expressionists.
With this stamp pane, the U.S. Postal Service honors the artistic
innovations and achievements of 10 abstract expressionists, a group
of artists who revolutionized art during the 1940s and 1950s and
moved the U.S. to the forefront of the international art scene for
the first time.
Other artists in the pane include Willem de Kooning and Jackson
Pollock, both collaborators of Gorky at the height of the abstract
expressionist movement.
Abstract expressionism refers to a large body of work that comprised
radically different styles, from still, luminescent fields of color
to vigorous, almost violent, slashes of paint. In celebration of the
abstract expressionist artists of the 20th century, art director Ethel
Kessler and noted art historian Jonathan Fineberg (Gutgsell Professor
of Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) selected
ten paintings to feature on this colorful pane of self-adhesive
stamps. Kessler used elements from Barnett Newman’s Achilles (1952)
to frame the stamps. The arrangement of the stamps suggests paintings
hanging on a gallery wall. For design purposes the sizes of the stamps
are not in relative proportion to the paintings.
A comprehensive exhibit of Gorky’s work just completed in
Philadelphia. The exhibit moves to the London Tate Modern Museum in
February and will begin a run in June at Museum of Contemporary Arts
in Los Angeles in June.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
