Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker. Gottlieb was important as an early and outstanding member of the New York school of Abstract Expressionism. Early in the 1940s Gottlieb developed his pictograph style, in which cryptic forms, often derived from mythology and primitive art, were used in a rectilinear, gridlike pattern. During the 1950s he painted abstract landscapes, which, in turn, led to his second principal style, called “bursts,” in which sunlike, static orb forms float above jagged areas. The lower element was often made up of smears, blots, and other forms characteristic of Action painting. The paintings became simpler and more monumental and used a limited number of colours.
Music: Quartet for Piano and Strings in A minor by Gustav Mahler