Artist 35: Michael Goldberg

Michael Goldberg was born in 1924 and was an abstract expressionist painter who trained at the Art Students League of New York. He uses a lot of bold colors and what appears to me be to quick, typically large brush strokes. Similar to what I appreciate about other abstract artists is that you really are able to use your own imagination in these paintings to conjure up whatever image you desire. Many of his paintings evoke images of figures, and because he wasn't only abstract, I think this was intentional. This style seems different from the other abstraction artists I've talked about because the images are ever so slightly more obvious. In this one pictured to the right, "Untitled," I count at least 2 figures in the painting. His color schemes also work very well, this one uses a mostly primary color pallet, and that seems to be his most used combination in his other paintings, though there are also other colors used which help to give life to his other paintings.