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It is true – is it not – that even Ingres [French classical painter, famous for his line] had to revise – yes, the surface of the painting is smooth,… - Arshile Gorky
" "It is true – is it not – that even Ingres [French classical painter, famous for his line] had to revise – yes, the surface of the painting is smooth, finished and incorruptible as a diamond, but under the accomplished surface are pentimenti – see there at the shoulder, how the line of the black dress was lowered qua fraction and the hand was extended to give greater elegance.. .Are these not signs of the patient revision that even a genius has to make.
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About Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky (15 April 1904 – 21 July 1948), born Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, was an American abstract expressionist painter of Armenian descent, living and working in New York, where he got later strongly involved with American Surrealism. He was a very close friend of Willem de Kooning who respected him as a teacher in painting.
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Native Name:
Արշիլ Գորկի
Alternative Names:
Ostanik-Manuk Adoian
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Arshil Gorʹkiĭ
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Arshile Gorky Adoian
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Arshil Gorky
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Osdanig-Manug Atoyan
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Arshil Gorki Adoyan
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Wostanig Adoyan
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Vosdanig Manoog Adoian
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Ostanik-Manuk Adoyan
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Arshil Gorki
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Ostanik-Manuk Adoyean
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Osdanig-Manug Atoian
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Vostanik-Manuk Adoian
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Arschille Gorky
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Vosdanik Adoian
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Arshele Gorky
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Vosdanig Adoian
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Archele Gorky
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Archel Gorky
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Archele Gorki
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Arshile Gorkij
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Adoian Gorky
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a. gorky
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It would be a sad thing for an artist if he knew how to paint. – so sad. An artist paints because it is a challenge to him – it is like trying to twist the devil. If you overcome it, there is no sport left. I don't even like to talk about painting. It is impossible to talk about painting because I don't know what it is. If I knew what it was I would get out a patent and then no one else would be able to paint.
Subject.. ..no specific scene but many incidents. – The first word I spoke was Argula – it has no meaning. I was then five years old. Thus I called this painting 'Argula' as I was entering a new period closer to my instincts.
(Technique..:) Hundreds and hundreds of layers of paint to obtain the weight of reality – Art this period I measured by weight. [mid 1930's]
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They [the critics] forget that while the artist never works outside his time yet his art will go on to be merged gradually into the new art of a new age. There will be no short stop. We shall not, contrary to the expectation of these people, hear of the sudden death of Cubism, abstraction, so-called modern art.. ..if they could but realize that energy is a spiritual movement and that they must conceive of working under a law of universal aesthetic progress, as we do in science, in mathematics, in physics.
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