Arshile Gorky American, born Ottoman Empire (Present Day Turkey) c.1904–1948
The Plow and the Song
1946–47
Arshile Gorky's 'The Plow and the Song' (1947) is one of the paintings Gorky made in the year before his suicide, synthesising Armenian childhood memory with Surrealist biomorphism. Soft, thinly brushed fields of cream, russet, and green host a cast of near-organic glyphs — ploughs, horses, singers — that helped define the bridge from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago