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Published on April 06, 2020

Sharing the Power of Art to Inspire and Console

Adolph Gottlieb

MIST, 1961, Adolph Gottlieb, 72 x 48 inches (182.9 x 121.9 cm), Oil on canvas, (Image courtesy of the Guggenheim Museum)

To this viewer, a child of the Cold War Era, Adolph Gottlieb’s  BURST series possesses a quality of foreboding. The images are frighteningly reminiscent of the aerial bursts of nuclear explosions. They also appear uncannily like the magnified images of the deadly pathogens, like COVID-19. Both war and pestilence have for centuries plagued humankind. One is transfixed by the sight, unable to look away as the horrors are unleashed.

– Mark Gerard McKee, Ad. Prof. of Studio Art