Adolph Gottlieb ”Spray”, 1959, oil on canvas © Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, Photo by G.R. Christmas, Courtesy The Pace Gallery
An amazing review from The Wall Street Journal: “The works’ monumental prettiness seems to have a philosophical depth to it, and more than a hint of metaphysical truth. In “Spray” (1959), this can be seen in the way in which a slightly flat-sided black oval with a gray penumbra hovers, on a rich brown ground, over a wild yellow burst. The artist does get a little didactic in a couple of 1970s paintings sporting some small colored rectangles, placed like mere notations of ingredients, in the lower right-hand corners. But all in all, this is a profoundly therapeutic, cool breeze of a painting exhibition.”
(via thearspoetica)
