{"id":104802,"date":"2016-11-14T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=104802"},"modified":"2016-11-14T20:10:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T01:10:33","slug":"classic-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/classic-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cClassic Attitude<\/a>,\u201d an exhibition of Helen Lundeberg\u2019s sixties-era abstract paintings, is at Cristin Tierney Gallery through December 17. Lundeberg, who died in 1999, was a pivotal figure in the West Coast abstract circle.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cBy classicism I mean, not traditionalism of any sort, but a highly conscious concern with aesthetic\u00a0structure,\u201d she wrote in a statement accompanying her show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942. \u201cMy aim,\u00a0realized or not, is to calculate, and reconsider, every element in a painting with regard to its\u00a0function\u00a0in the whole organization. That, I believe, is the classic attitude.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Helen Lundeberg, Sunny Corridor, 1959, oil on canvas, 20″ x 24″. \u00a9 The Feitelson \/ Lundeberg Art Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n

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Untitled<\/i>, 1959, oil on canvas, 50″ x 40″.<\/p><\/div>

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Seascape<\/i>, 1962, oil on canvas, 60″ x 50″.<\/p><\/div>

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Untitled<\/i>, 1962, oil on canvas, 30″ x 24″.<\/p><\/div>

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Water Map<\/i>, 1963, acrylic on canvas, 60″ x 60″.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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