Albert Kotin pioneer American Expressionist

Albert Kotin- Abstract Expressionism-New York School Art

AMERICAN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST

Albert Kotin

1907-1980

THE PAINTER

by Albert Kotin

Every day

He grinds up

A small piece

Of his umbilical cord

Mixes it with oil

With varnish

And with turps

To paint

A self-portrait

On a

Tightly

Stretched

Placenta.

Alexander Calder wrote in 1968:

"As long as there are people such as Al Kotin, there is no danger to art."

Albert Kotin-Major Abstract Expressionist

Albert Kotin, Untitled, 1950

AMERICAN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST

ALBERT KOTIN

1907-1980

Albert Kotin belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist Artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline and others became the leading art movement of the postwar era. Artists including James Brooks, Nicolas Carone, Giorgio Cavallon, Willem & Elaine De Kooning, Enrico Donati, John Ferren, Perle Fine, Michael Goldberg, Robert Goodnough, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hofmann, Earl Kerkam, Franz Kline, Albert Kotin, Conrad Marca-Relli, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Richard Pousette-Dart, Milton Resnick, James Rosati, Louis Schanker, David Smith, and Esteban Vicente were the 24 artists from the total of 256 participants who were included in the famous 9th St. Show, (1951) and in all the following New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals from 1953 to 1957. These Annuals were important because the participants were chosen by the artists themselves.