Interactive Timeline of Ary's Artwork

Representational

Palestine Watercolors

Morocco Drawings

Early Abstracts

New York Folio

Drawings

Prints

Early Mexican

Gouaches

Houston-
Cuernavaca

Leyendas

Early Abstracts (1945-1956)

Private Collection

Ary's painting had undergone a radical change.

This had been brewing ever since the early part of World War II. Ary was, of course, profoundly shaken by the war, by the enormity and brutality and hideousness of it, and especially by the tragic fate of six million Jews. He was in an emotional upheaval that affected every phase of his being, and of course this included walks we would take in Central Park on Sunday afternoons; we would wind up in some secluded spot and then Ary would give voice to his thoughts and feelings. He would say, "I cannot continue to paint the way I have been doing, I am sure that every creative person will have to make some change. For me, the world of surface realities is no longer paintable. For nothing is as it formerly seemed. It is not the surface of things—the look of things—that is real—it is that which is hidden beneath the surface—an inner reality of some sort that is real. And that is what I must search for. I can no longer set up a still-life, or paint the view of a city street, no matter how much of my own perception and sensitivity I put into the painting. I shall have to dig down deep within myself—back to my subconscious, if possible—and bring out what will be an inner reality."

Land of Poco Tempo
Land of
Poco Tempo

1945,
oil on canvas,
23 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.,
[Private Collection]
Prismatic Vision
Prismatic Vision
1945,
oil on canvas,
39 1/2 x 28 1/2 in.,
[Private Collection]
allegretto
Allegretto
1949,
oil on canvas,
14 x 13 1/8 in.,
[Private Collection]
Jazz
Jazz
1949,
oil on canvas,
24 x 19 1/2 in.,
[Private Collection]
Dancing Forms
Dancing Forms
1950,
oil on canvas,
36 x 30 in.,
[Private Collection]
Fire Dance
Fire Dance
1950,
oil on canvas,
28 1/4 x 24 3/8 in.,
[Private Collection]
Strange World
Strange World
1951,
oil on canvas,
48 x 36 in.,
[Private Collection]
Blue Accent
Blue Accent
1952,
oil on canvas,
40 x 30 in.,
[Private Collection]
Anguish
Anguish
1953,
oil on canvas,
14 x 12 in.,
[Private Collection]
Door to the Sea
Door to the Sea
1953,
oil on canvas,
40 3/8 x 78 1/4 in.,
[Private Collection]
Interplay #1
Interplay #1
1953,
oil on canvas,
24 x 19 1/2 in.,
[Private Collection]
Untitled catalog #3
Untitled
1954,
oil on canvas,
36 x 44 in.,
[Private Collection]
Majorca
Majorca (Mallorca)
1955,
oil on canvas,
22 x 18 in.,
[Private Collection]
Carnival
Carnival
c. 1946-47,
oil on canvas,
19 x 23 in .,
[Private Collection]
Interplay #3
Interplay #3
c. 1950s,
oil on canvas,
22 x 17 in.,
[Private Collection]
Variation of Forms
Variation of Forms
c. 1950s,
oil on canvas,
39 1/2 x 49 1/4 in.,
[Private Collection]
Unidentified
Unidentified
oil on canvas,
24 x 20 1/4 in.,
[Private Collection]
Unidentified
Unidentified
oil on canvas,
24 x 20 1/4 in.,
[Private Collection]

 

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