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**Adolph Gottlieb**
Born: March 14, 1903, New York, N.Y. Died: March 4, 1974, New York -American painter -Studied under John Sloan and Robert Henri -member of New York School of Abstract Expressionists - Later, he studied at the art students league of new york and in Paris. - returned in 1923 to NY to attend Parsons School of Design, cooper union, and Educational Alliance Art School - Early 1940 he developed his pictograph style (cryptic forms coming from mythology and primitive art used in a rectilinear grid like pattern. Ex. “Evil Omen” - pictographs: he took inspiration from fantasy and the unconscious for imagery - During the 1950’s he painted abstract landscaped which led to his second style- “bursts”- in which sun like, stat ic org forms float above jagged areas (smears, bursts, or other forms of “active painting”) - started to become simpler and more limited in use of color. Ex. “Triad”, “expanding”, “Orb”

-Later works were imaginary landscape series (1951-56), partial abstractions, divided by a horizontal line (sunlike disks which led to “bursts”) -After 1956 he started the bursts, which contain large exploding orbs of color -American abstract expressionist painter under the influence of European surrealists - One of the "Rebel Painter" of the 1950s


 * Some of his artwork: **
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