..it was the Cubist painters who created the new magic of s… - Arshile Gorky

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..it was the Cubist painters who created the new magic of space and color that everywhere today confronts our eyes in new architecture and design. Since then the various branches of modern art through exhaustive experiment and research have created a vast laboratory whose discoveries unveiled for all the secrets of form, line and color..

Arshile Gorky

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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 • Arshil Gorʹkiĭ • Arshile Gorky Adoian • Arshil Gorky • Osdanig-Manug Atoyan • Arshil Gorki Adoyan • Wostanig Adoyan • Vosdanig Manoog Adoian • Ostanik-Manuk Adoyan • Arshil Gorki • Ostanik-Manuk Adoyean • Osdanig-Manug Atoian • Vostanik-Manuk Adoian • Arschille Gorky • Vosdanik Adoian • Arshele Gorky • Vosdanig Adoian • Archele Gorky • Archel Gorky • Archele Gorki • Arshile Gorkij • Adoian Gorky • a. gorky

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Paul Cézanne Willem de Kooning Karel Appel Philip Guston Wassily Kandinsky

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I was with Cézanne for a long time, and now naturally I am with Picasso

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

I like the heat the tenderness the edible the lusciousness the song of a single person the bathtub full of water to bathe myself beneath the water. I like Ucello, Grunewald, Ingres, the drawings and sketches for paintings of Seurat and that man [=Pablo Picasso ]. I measure all things by weight.

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