Analysis Of Artwork 'Apaquogue 1961'
Apaquogue 1961
This piece of artwork “Apaquogue, 1961” was created by Adolph Gottlieb (American, born 1903-1974). In fact the naming of the artwork comes from the name of a road near the ocean close to Gottlieb’s home. Medium used to create this masterpiece is oil on canvas. It is located in The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. The sizing of this canvas is 74 ¼ by
94 ¼ inches. Canvas was acquired in 1984, to the collection of the Modern Art Museum,
Museum purchase.
The Apaquogue took me back to the ocean when I stood there glancing at it. The black brushstrokes towards the lower parts of the canvas soaring in different directions, reminded me of the dark grey sand under my bare feet as the water drifted across my skin. My eyes swishing
side to side pulling the artwork alive in my mind. The different shadings of the color pink in shapes of circles brought sunlight in as you would see the stages of it throughout the day, slowly turning from a soft light in the morning and gradually getting brighter as it gets later in the day when it reaches its fullness during the night.
The painting is two dimensional and uses vertical placement with the circles. Also motion is implied with the black brushstrokes at the bottom of the canvas. Implying lighting the shadings of the circles as if it were giving off light, along with the different shading in the black lines brushed across the bottom. There is very little mass in this painting, it is mostly in the center of the canvas. Rhythm of repetition is occurring as the circles keep developing side by side. DAVIS 2
Cheyenne Davis
Art Appreciation
February 28, 2017
The mixture of the bright colors and warm colors draw in the viewers. Giving off the feeling of relaxation. Also the viewers will gather the visual feel of this artwork.
Adolph Gottlieb said "Different times require different images. Today when our aspirations have been reduced to a desperate attempt to escape from evil, and times are out of joint, our obsessive, subterranean and pictographic images are the expression of the neurosis which is our reality. To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all. On the contrary, it is the realism of our time.". Thus creating the reasoning behind his artwork, he is capturing his reality by constructing abstract paintings. Something he can come back to attempt to escape the evil roaming in our everyday lives.
This piece grabbed my attention fairly quickly, this gigantic yet simple painting, hanging upon a bright white wall. Pulling me in as the artist used the mixture of cool and dark colors. My first thoughts when being attracted to this canvas at first sight, I noticed the strong colors that
Gottlieb used. About five minutes went by and a strong warm wave came over me like I was back in galveston standing in the dark black sand, looking out at the sun on setting the horizon.
This was not just a painting to me it was a painting of my past that I could no longer forget nor did I want to. Apaquogue is a memory of my first time of escaping reality and being with my one true love in the most relaxing and calm moment of my life. This is a painting that I think many will enjoy.
This piece of artwork “Apaquogue, 1961” was created by Adolph Gottlieb (American, born 1903-1974). In fact the naming of the artwork comes from the name of a road near the ocean close to Gottlieb’s home. Medium used to create this masterpiece is oil on canvas. It is located in The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. The sizing of this canvas is 74 ¼ by
94 ¼ inches. Canvas was acquired in 1984, to the collection of the Modern Art Museum,
Museum purchase.
The Apaquogue took me back to the ocean when I stood there glancing at it. The black brushstrokes towards the lower parts of the canvas soaring in different directions, reminded me of the dark grey sand under my bare feet as the water drifted across my skin. My eyes swishing
side to side pulling the artwork alive in my mind. The different shadings of the color pink in shapes of circles brought sunlight in as you would see the stages of it throughout the day, slowly turning from a soft light in the morning and gradually getting brighter as it gets later in the day when it reaches its fullness during the night.
The painting is two dimensional and uses vertical placement with the circles. Also motion is implied with the black brushstrokes at the bottom of the canvas. Implying lighting the shadings of the circles as if it were giving off light, along with the different shading in the black lines brushed across the bottom. There is very little mass in this painting, it is mostly in the center of the canvas. Rhythm of repetition is occurring as the circles keep developing side by side. DAVIS 2
Cheyenne Davis
Art Appreciation
February 28, 2017
The mixture of the bright colors and warm colors draw in the viewers. Giving off the feeling of relaxation. Also the viewers will gather the visual feel of this artwork.
Adolph Gottlieb said "Different times require different images. Today when our aspirations have been reduced to a desperate attempt to escape from evil, and times are out of joint, our obsessive, subterranean and pictographic images are the expression of the neurosis which is our reality. To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all. On the contrary, it is the realism of our time.". Thus creating the reasoning behind his artwork, he is capturing his reality by constructing abstract paintings. Something he can come back to attempt to escape the evil roaming in our everyday lives.
This piece grabbed my attention fairly quickly, this gigantic yet simple painting, hanging upon a bright white wall. Pulling me in as the artist used the mixture of cool and dark colors. My first thoughts when being attracted to this canvas at first sight, I noticed the strong colors that
Gottlieb used. About five minutes went by and a strong warm wave came over me like I was back in galveston standing in the dark black sand, looking out at the sun on setting the horizon.
This was not just a painting to me it was a painting of my past that I could no longer forget nor did I want to. Apaquogue is a memory of my first time of escaping reality and being with my one true love in the most relaxing and calm moment of my life. This is a painting that I think many will enjoy.