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Paul Gruhler Harmonics: Sixty Years of Life in Art (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- Harmonics: Sixty Years of Life in Art
- Title
- Harmonics: Sixty Years of Life in Art
- EAN
- 9781942134794
- ISBN
- 9781942134794
- Release Date
- 09/16/2021
- Release Year
- 2021
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Contributor
- Carolyn Bauer (Introduction by)
- Book Title
- Harmonics: Sixty Years of Life in Art
- Item Length
- 11.7in
- Publisher
- Mandel Vilar Press
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Individual Artists / General, General
- Item Width
- 11.6in
- Item Weight
- 34.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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Paul Gruhler opened his first studio in 1962 at the age of 21 -- a year later he had a solo show at the DeMena Gallery in lower Manhattan. From the beginning, Gruhler, a self-taught artist, was compelled by what came to be known as geometric abstraction, in which the deliberative arrangement of color, line, texture, and scale, in paintings and collage, evoke from these disparate elements a sense of meditative harmony. For sixty years, he has continued to explore the subtle differences that can be made from color and line. Gruhler was fortunate in the early years to have met and become good friends with three older artists who were also important teachers and mentors -- first Michael Lekakis, then Harold Weston and Herb Aach. Lekakis, a celebrated sculptor, who already had had exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Americans 1963, took Gruhler under his wing, navigating him through New York's thriving avant-garde art scene. As Carolyn Bauer writes, "Michael Lekakis was instrumental in encouraging Gruhler to attend art events, while taking him to invite-only museum openings." He also introduced him to renowned artists -- among them, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson, and Barnett Newman -- whose works influenced the young Gruhler, as did such artists as Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Ad Reinhardt. Lekakis was also instrumental in Gruhler's first show, giving titles to his paintings and writing catalog copy that drew upon his own abstract poetics. "These canvases," he wrote, are "multi colored fire densely cascades to suspension hanging a counterpoint of rhythmic patterns in space covering it like a shroud united by a golden fragmentation." Over these years Gruhler has had numerous solo and group shows in the U.S. in New York and Vermont, in Mexico, and abroad in Finland, Germany, Sweden, and The Netherlands. HARMONICS is both a retrospective and a current view of Paul Gruhler's intensive art. "My work," he says, "has been a meditative exploration of vertical and horizontal relationships in space, in order to achieve both harmony and tension within color, line and form."--Paul Gruhler "Publisher"
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mandel Vilar Press
ISBN-10
1942134797
ISBN-13
9781942134794
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22050403004
Product Key Features
Book Title
Harmonics: Sixty Years of Life in Art
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.7in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
11.6in
Item Weight
34.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
N6537.G79a4 2021
Reviews
"In many of his [Gruhler's] pieces planes of color seem actually to advance or recede in space, while lines bisecting those planes appear to vibrate in place. Gruhler's exuberant use of color, coupled with deceptively straightforward compositions, result in works that fairly radiate energy." Times Argus, Practicing hard-edged geometric abstraction, Gruhler's works are alive with subtleties that are largely invisible in reproduced images. His colors are closely calibrated, and he juxtaposes textures with equal precision. His use of line becomes a narrative in itself. Mark Awody, Seven Days|9781942134794|, "For all their formality, minimalism or whatever label one might choose to apply, Gruhler's painting pack an instantaneous wallop, an emotional impact attributable to their clarity. [His work] was influenced by color-field painters, by Mark Rothko and the New York School and by Chinese art, but his work stands, and even soars, on its own." Alex Hanson, Valley News
Copyright Date
2021
Lccn
2021-008313
Dewey Decimal
709.2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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