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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
Opens: 10/02/2010 Closes: 03/05/2010
Tate Modern, London
Arshile Gorky - an Armenian-American painter formative to Abstract Expressionism - embodied the tortured artist. Known to have delivered lectures on art to cows grazing near his studio before suicide in 1948, the chiefly self-taught Gorky forged links with European surrealists and created a most singular body of work.
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Financial Times“Pigments run, blur, pool to create evanescent veils of colour...” Stark as a Byzantine icon, “The Artist and his Mother” illuminates this entire show. Gorky’s instinct for modernist flatness lay – like Warhol’s a generation later – in childhood exposure to hieratic styles of Orthodox Christian art...
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this is london“A far larger and grander exhibition than he deserves...” Much though I would like him to have been the Armenian Michelangelo, very little in our thoroughly mendacious art world could be further from the truth...
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Time Out“Gorky was more of a follower than a leader...” Gorky will remain eternally on the cusp, or on the turn, an amorphous nearly-man as changeable as those he left on canvas…
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Guardian“This is the kind of exhibition Tate Modern should put on all the time...” The achievement of this exhibition is to reveal that – far from being unresolved – these are among the monuments of American art. They flow and burst with life, evoking waterfalls in drips of thin green and orange paint...
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The Times“You certainly won’t forget him after this show...” The visitor is left in no doubt of Gorky’s art-historical importance. Here is a painter who, almost single-handedly, carried the baton of Modernism across the Atlantic opening up a bleak mid-Twenties New York to new possibilities...
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The Telegraph“The assurance of a master calligrapher to summon up a landscape...” Gorky was the link between European Surrealism and American Abstract Expressionism. The passion, enigma and autobiographical dimension of his work would find their way into the art of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and, above all, Cy Twombly...
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