“ Gorky’s flipped-out adulatory relationship with Picasso might make for a boring exhibition but it’s still an amazing story: Rather than going around the Spanish supernova -- as others tried -- Gorky went directly through the cloud itself and in the 1930s miraculously emerged on the other side with an original style that led directly to Abstract Expressionism.“
Arshile Gorky Organization (1933-36)
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