David Mann
"In looking at the Glankoff's, it's hard to say why one would "pop" out, why one would be more preferable than another. It's clearly difficult.
It wasn't the color that I sought out, it was more the shapes and the graphic quality. I was looking at his purity and simplicity of expression, and chose images based on that.
I don't know, in my mind, if I succeeded in doing that, but the one's that I selected, and the one's that I preferred for this selection; it had more to do with the bold graphic quality.
I think there is a consistent color attitude in all of Glankoff's works that is very even. You can tell these are Glankoff's, as you can tell
a Joseph Albers or any Color Field artist. He has a great color sense. Although the work is not exclusively about that, it is his color sense, that I am attracted to.
I particularly like the ones that bridge that line between figurative and abstraction.
Yet the reclining nude is not abstracted, per se, it is a pared down shape that remains an evocative human figure. That is a great one.
Even though the works are boldly graphic, they are still a fine art object. Blurring those lines, was what a lot of modern art was all about…Warhol being the best example of that idea...blending those two worlds."
David Mann
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