Mihai Domocoș, “American Painting,” translated from Romanian by Jozefina Komporaly, originally published as “Pictura americană,” in România literară 3 (January 1969): 26–27 (excerpt)

Mihai Domocos was a temporary collaborator of the magazine Romania literara, based in Bucharest. Starting from January 17, the Dalles Exhibition Hall will play host to the exhibition entitled The Disappearance and Reappearance of the Image: American Painting Since 1945. American fine art has been championing the dismantling of boundaries between the realms of painting and sculpture lately, a fact rooted in the various modes of expression available to kinetics and objective art. Starting from the first generation of painters belonging to the Abstract Expressionist trend—so characteristic for the American art of this century: Pollock, Gorky, de Kooning, or those immediately following the innovators: Kline, Newman, Rothko, the exhibition illustrates the two newer tendencies, Pop art and Post-Painterly Abstraction. Whilst a few years ago the use of movement meant something new, artists today are experimenting with more subtle means, utilizing new materials in order to define the world that surrounds them.