Mural on the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver. |
This glowering portrait of artist Clyfford Still might well
be from a Howard Hecht film noir. His emotionless face and the angry descriptor
to his left called for the cool black and white treatment and then some applied noise
to give it a newsprint sensibility.
Still was an early Abstract Expressionist among whose post-war
contemporaries were Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Mark
Rothko. He was the first among them to discard recognizable subject matter and to
employ great fields of color, later described as Color Field painting, to explore existential conflicts and grand themes
such as creation, life and death. Of his work Still said, “they are
life and death merging in fearful union.” This struggle was expressed through
vertical forms that soar through his paintings and described by Still as “the vertical
necessity of life.”
The artist was a prickly character who disdained the New York art
scene, ignored criticism and who assiduously controlled how is work was marketed, collected
and shown. He died his own man in Maryland in 1980.
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