"Recently I was at the home of Thomas Hess and he had a painting hanging there and I said to my wife: 'Is that one of my paintings?'. And she said: 'Well, it looks like one of yours [Adolph Gottlieb's] from around 1942'. But then we realized that it wasn't one of my but one of Baziote's paintings. At that time, 1942, the differences in our paintings may have seemed very great, but now [1960] the difference is not so great apparently.. .However, at no point was there ever any sort of a doctrine or a programma or anything that would make a school. I think it was simply a situation in which all of the painters were at that time; they were trying to break away from certain things."
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Quote of Adolph Gottlieb (March 1960), in an interview with David Sylvester, edited for broadcasting by the BBC first published in 'Living Arts', June 1963; as cited in Interviews with American Artists, by David Sylvester; Chatto & Windus, London 2001, pp. 27-28
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William Baziotes
William Baziotes (June 11, 1912 – June 6, 1963) was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. He participated in discussions and exhibitions of the New York School. In the early 1940's Baziotes was close friends of Jackson Pollock, Roberto Matta and Robert Motherwell; with Pollock he painted some paintings together.
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