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Throughout the 1930s, Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) absorbed the style of painters such as Picasso, Braque, and Miro,¹ becoming known as the Picasso of Washington Square. His work was a bridge between modern European art and Abstract Expressionism (a form in which artists expressed themselves purely through the use of form and color), the first American artistic movement of worldwide importance. Rosenberg writes,

For him abstract art meant, finally, not abstracting from experience but making experience over through a protracted series of connected efforts; a sketch was an event that led to another, not a draft to be perfected. . . . the canvas was not a surface upon which to present an image, but a "mind" through which the artist discovers. . . . ^2(p118)

James C. Harris, MD