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WEEK'S STROLL: An Abstract master in Lake WorthBy GARY SCHWAN Palm Beach Post Arts Writer Sunday, April 13, 2008 Art critic Gary Schwan says: Robert Goodnough (b. 1917) is one of the last members of the heroic generation of American abstract artists that numbered Pollock and de Kooning. He never garnered their fame, but that didn't make him any less single-minded about creating bold pictures. Margot Stein Gallery is exhibiting only eight or so oils, but they're a treat. Goodnough's abstraction usually began with rigid forms, although the shapes sometimes burst with energy, thrusting across the canvas. With a little imagination, some works can be viewed in different ways. Bombed Boat, from 1966, looks like an explosion in a salad bowl, but also has a sense of mechanical destruction. The tiny, tessera shapes of Release II (2006) seem a bit like hanging grapes as well as figures in flight. |
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