Manhattan.
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Title |
Manhattan. |
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Creator |
Wols (German painter and photographer, 1913-1951) |
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Date |
1948-1949 |
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Cultural Context |
German
French
European |
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Style/Period |
Tachiste
Art Informel
Abstract (fine arts style) |
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Subject |
Abstract works
Abstract paintings |
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Description |
"Wols's painted surfaces register a variety of different activities. Paint was stenciled, smeared, trickled, or thrown onto his canvases. Markings were incised using the artist's fingers or sticks. In essence, though, these images were more traditional in conception than the 'drip paintings' being produced in New York by [Jackson] Pollock at the same time. The title retrospectively has an ironic ring." (Caption, p.18); […] the work of Wols in particular posits a new gestural abstract language in which the worrying of the picture surface by the artist's scratchings and spillages has some affinities with Pollock. However, Wols was very much an easel-painter. Furthermore, large areas of his output have a distinctly precious quality. His early drawings and watercolors, many of which recall the spidery graphics of the Swiss-born modernist Paul Klee, were displayed at [René] Drouin's [Gallery] in December 1945 in small illuminated boxes. Like the Abstract Expressionists, Wols internalized the tragic nature of his times. His art was suffused with romantic self-pity, primordial longings, inchoate gestures." (Excerpt, pp.18-19) |
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Material |
Oil on canvas
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
Paint
Canvas |
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Measurements |
146 x 97 cm |
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Technique |
Oil painting (technique)
Painting (image-making)
Incising |
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Work Type |
Paintings
Oil paintings
Abstract paintings
Abstract works |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.18, fig.8) |
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Rights |
© ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2000. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 826-23.jpg |
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