BETHLEHEM-WOODBURY — A passion for depicting firefighting through works of art has earned Nonnewaug High School senior Samantha Molzon top spots in the high school arts landscape category this year.
The Unmistakable Anuszkiewicz by Jonathan Burdick
RichardAnuszkiewicz.com
While recently teaching about the 1950s in my high school U.S. History course, a few students chose to research the art from the decade. Naturally, I recommended that they check out familiar names like Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, and others who popularized abstract expressionism as their starting point. One of these sold for $140 million?! one Google-savvy student exclaimed. My little brother could do that, another added, thoroughly unimpressed. The art world is complicated, I responded matter-of-factly.
I did my best to explain action painting as a technique during which I remembered the Erie born-and-raised Richard Anuszkiewicz. While his optical art (better known as Op Art) was more associated with the 60s and 70s, he established himself and began to refine his innovative ideas during the 50s. I certainly can t claim to be a connoiss