 ABSTRACT:
Petaloid-Negative - Adolph Gottlieb
American painter, born in New York, and studied under John Sloan
and Robert Henri. His earliest works were Expressionist in style,
before his imagery began to reflect his interest in primitive
and American Indian art object as well as Surrealism and Freudian
psychology. This led to his well-known series of Pictographs,
consisting of compartments filled with schematic shapes - Freudian
symbols or abstract mythological concepts. This style of expressive
abstraction was simplified in a series of "Imaginary Landscapes"
and then his "Burst" series, suggesting solar orbs and
astral bodies hovering over terrestrial explosions. Although the
title and horizontal composition of "Petaloid Negative"
give the sculpture a more benign feeling, the shapes are identical
to those in the "Burst" series.
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