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"With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create."
Kasimir Malevich, (1879-1935) Painter.

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During the Nazi rise to power in the 1930s many artists fled Europe to the United States.

By the early 1940s the main movements in modern art, expressionism, cubism, abstraction, surrealism, and dada were represented in New York:

Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Jacques Lipchitz, Max Ernst, André Breton, were just a few of the exiled Europeans who arrived in New York.

The rich cultural influences brought by the European artists were distilled and built upon by local New York painters. The climate of freedom in New York allowed all of these influences to flourish. The art galleries that primarily had focused on European art began to notice the local art community and the work of younger American artists who had begun to mature. Certain of these artists became distinctly abstract in their mature work.

Eventually American artists who were working in a great diversity of styles began to coalesce into cohesive stylistic groups. The best known group of American artists became known as the Abstract expressionists and the New York School.

In New York City there was an atmosphere which encouraged discussion and there was new opportunity for learning and growing. Artists and teachers John D. Graham and Hans Hofmann became important bridge figures between the newly arrived European Modernists and the younger American artists coming of age. Mark Rothko, born in Russia, began with strongly surrealist imagery which later dissolved into his powerful color compositions of the early 1950s.

The expressionistic gesture and the act of painting itself, became of primary importance to Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. While during the 1940s Arshile Gorky's and Willem de Kooning's figurative work evolved into abstraction by the end of the decade. New York City became the center, and artists worldwide gravitated towards it; from other places in America as well.

► Abstract Art Definition

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
[From Wikipedia].

► Quotes:

"With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create."

Kasimir Malevich, (1879-1935) Painter.
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“Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions... and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.”

Alvin Langdon Coburn, (1882-1966) Photographer.
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"The people who call my work 'abstract' are imbeciles.. what they call 'abstract' is in fact the purest realism, the reality of which is not represented by external form but by the idea behind it, the essence of the work. "

Constantin Brancusi, (1876-1957) Sculptor.
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I'm performing for the first time in New york September 1st, Wed night, at 8 -PM, a 45 minute set solo with my piano, and voice. It is located at Rustik Tavern, 471 De Kalb Ave btwn Franklin & Kent in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. You can check their website out at www.rustiktavern.com.

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Comment by Alexandre Guillaume on August 1, 2010 at 9:28pm: Duo Show

Alexandre Guillaume's acrylic paintings offer a more masculine take on abstraction. In his work, Guillaume incorporates the speed, brutality and impatience we experience in daily life to create paintings that ultimately leave the viewer in peace. A thick, carefully placed, large brush stroke interrupts a solid ground to end in light, airy splashes of thin lines, alleviating an omnipresent tension. His palette ranges from a monochromatic grey, to a swath of black paint on a bright orange, yellow, blue or red ground.

His work will be on view at the gallery from August 6th through September 12th. (10 paintings, chance to see some large format like 76, 84 inches)

Muriel Guépin Gallery
47 Bergen street
Brooklyn, NY

► Opening Reception

Friday, August 6 from 6.30 - 9 pm.

► Via Subway

F Train - Bergen stop.
2, 3, 4 or 5 train to Borough Hall.
Or the R train to Court Street.
The Gallery is located at 47 Bergen Street
between Smith and Court Streets.

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