Still Clyfford's '1951-E'

1951-E , 1951 by Still Clyfford,  American (1904-'80), OOC - 297 x 363 cm

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (Gift of the artist, 1964)

"He rose above the commonplace that oppressed him."
Andrew Graham-Dixon about Still Clyfford in ‘Art of America’

Otto Gutfreund - "Cubist bust" 1913/14

"The ceremonial perpendicular lines (lines that are at right angles of 90° to each other) are the backbone of life within space" wrote Frantisek Kupka in 'The creation of Art and Sculpture' - 1923

 

Otto Gutfreund - "Cubist bust" 1913/14, bronze H 60cm - National Gallery Collection, Prague

Joseph Beuys - "I Like America and America Likes Me, May 1974"

"We have to revolutionize human thought. First of all revolution takes place within man. When man is really a free, creative being who can produce something new and original, he can revolutionize time." - Joseph Beuys ('Performance Art' by R.L.Goldberg)



'This action also represented a transformation of ideology into the idea of freedom.'

-  Joseph Beuys on 'Coyote, 1974, at the René Block Gallery (NY)

https://www.wikiart.org/en/joseph-beuys/i-like-america-and-america-likes-me

"Same old sh*t (c) for the so called avant garde" - J.M. Basquiat, 1979

Photo credit: Henry Flynt, 1979

 

http://flavorwire.com/226300/vintage-shots-of-jean-michel-basquiats-samo-graffiti

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Fallen Angel), 1981

Medium: acrylic and oilstick on canvas - size: 167.6 x 198.1 cm. (66 x 78 in.)

Private collection, Courtesy Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY.

 

http://www.jean-michel-basquiat.org/untitled-fallen-angel/

"Journey to Seven Light Bay" by Mariko Mori - 2011

“ Spiritual energy is eternal ;  no death or birth can touch it.” - Mariko Mori  °1967 Tokyo