Silly Supper: The Ten

It's amazing what you can learn from status updates on Facebook. Last week, my best mate put this in her stats "Rothko? Schanker? Dekooning? Pollock?" which got me thinking what is she on about. By the end of that same day, I set out on a mission to look up these artists. Known as The Ten: Whitney Dissenter (to defy The Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC), it was a group of 21st American abstract expressionist artists consisting of Mark Rothko, Louis Schanker, Ilya Bolotowsky, Ben-Zion, Adolph Gottlieb, Lou Harris, Ralph Rosenborg, Yankel Kufeld, Nahum Tschacbasov and Joseph Solman. Their group exhibition in 1937 was to "protest against the reputed equivalence of American painting and literal painting.". They held eight group exhibitions between 1935 - 1939, including at the Galerie Bonaparte in France and Mercury Gallery. Personally I'm not a fan of abstract, but I'm learning not to discriminate or prejudge or whatever...