Dan Grigorescu, “The Disappearance and Re-appearance of Image: American Painting after 1945,” translated from Romanian by Jozefina Komporaly, originally published as “Dispariţia şi reapariţia imaginii în pictura americană de după 1945,” in Arta 2 (1969): 30–34

Dan Grigorescu was a historian of art and comparative literature, an art critic, translator and essayist, and member of the Romanian Academy. The Disappearance and Reappearance of the Image: American Painting Since 1945 was the title of the exhibition at the Dalles Exhibition Hall in Bucharest that addressed one of the most important phenomena in modern art. In turn, the tendency (rather vaguely) known as Action painting cannot be separated from precursors such as the art of Jean Fautrier. Artists introduce into the realm of art the most modern findings in physics. This exhibition at the Dalles Exhibition Hall brought together some of the most representative artists in contemporary America. The figurative elements in Pop art undergo a purely physical manner of signaling the artistic impetus. One could argue that the idea of originality harbored by the artistic trend is precisely that any visual evidence of originality should to be suppressed.