JULES OLITSKI “FACER” 1968Jules Olitski (1922 2007) is one of the most collected and accomplished artists associated with the Color field movement and 20th century American abstraction. He is also possibly one of the most "demanding" abstract artists. His works invite you to lose yourself in their color, to consider how it is created and contained on the picture plane. He wants the viewer to think about the conventions and strategies used by his active contemporaries and

Weegee explained this image: “On New Year’s Eve

Splatters and spontaneously created forms of icing white hover above a whirlwind of a background

they are smaller on the larger canvases

Goodnough was in good company amongst Motherwell

Molinari was one of the key figures (along with Yves Gaucher) of Les Plasticiens

down to the cast shadows of the specific Toronto streetlights that stand across the street

featuring an unusual yet pleasing color combination

His iconic works feature signature forms

Trash litters trampled grass in the foreground

placing people and animals together and capturing the unpredictable emotional resonances that emerge between them

What once was a heroic lion rising up from crashing waves has been replaced with a curious poodle/mermaid hybrid

While some of the images in his oil series directly depict the extraction process