https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/92796/fullObjects In Space1936 - 37[com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@15b04]com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@15b04Gouache on boardAn important geometric abstractionist painter, Ilya Bolotowsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and immigrated to New York in 1923. There he studied at the National Academy of Design (1924-1930). He began his career as a figurative expressionist, creating works influenced by Cubism and biomorphic abstraction, especially the work of Georges Braque, Paul Klee, and Hans Arp. He gradually adopted a nonobjective style inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian, which he first saw in New York in 1933. The work of the Russian Constructivist Kazimir Malevich also had a powerful impact on Bolotowsky's development of an art that expressed the interaction of abstract forces. In 1937 Bolotowsky joined with other abstract artists including Josef Albers, George L. K. Morris, Werner Drewes, Alice Mason, and Albert E. Gallatin to found American Abstract Artists, a group devoted to an intellectual vision of order and clarity that transcended the national concerns of the era's realist painting. During his years of involvement in the group, he explored the idea of an idealized, harmonious balance that is dynamic rather than symmetrical. In addition to painting, Bolotowsky made prints, experimental films, and created three-dimensional painted works. (source: "America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties." Spanierman Gallery, March 11-April 29, 2000)com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.Classification@5fRepresented by VAGAhttps://emuseum.cornell.edu/objects/15066/rdf