I just wrote a Suite101 blog bit about the U.S. Post Office's latest visual arts series being issued tomorrow, with ten paintings by Abstract Expressionist (or Abstractionists, as one of my professors used to call them) notables like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Arshile Gorky. Chicago native Joan Mitchell is the lone female in the group and the Suite101 post is mainly about her. In terms of Gorky, he was born Vostanik Manoog Adoyan on April 15, 1904 in Armenia; he survived his homeland's horrific genocide, immigrated to America and reinvented himself as Arshile Gorky. His work was fascinating and haunted yet often vibrant with color; his later life was troubled with personal problems and devastating physical ailments and he hung himself in 1948 surely just to escape it all. His featured painting among the Abstract Expressionist stamp series is the intriguingly-titled 1944 The Liver is the Cock's Comb (Albright-Knox Art Gallery), pictured here. Wednesday, March 10, 2010
abstractly postal
I just wrote a Suite101 blog bit about the U.S. Post Office's latest visual arts series being issued tomorrow, with ten paintings by Abstract Expressionist (or Abstractionists, as one of my professors used to call them) notables like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Arshile Gorky. Chicago native Joan Mitchell is the lone female in the group and the Suite101 post is mainly about her. In terms of Gorky, he was born Vostanik Manoog Adoyan on April 15, 1904 in Armenia; he survived his homeland's horrific genocide, immigrated to America and reinvented himself as Arshile Gorky. His work was fascinating and haunted yet often vibrant with color; his later life was troubled with personal problems and devastating physical ailments and he hung himself in 1948 surely just to escape it all. His featured painting among the Abstract Expressionist stamp series is the intriguingly-titled 1944 The Liver is the Cock's Comb (Albright-Knox Art Gallery), pictured here. 