Red Moon/Dandelion Sun

When I was studying art, I used to love Adolph Gottlieb, whom I emulated occasionally. I was taking calligraphy at the time, and we used to refer to his style as "Those Suns and Calligraphy like Gottlieb." While doodling past midnight a while back, I encountered this memory. I did the lines by marking across the edge of a piece of card stock, and continually changing the angle of the card. It's hard to explain, but try it some time as a way to fill the paper when nothing else occurs to you. Then the sun (or moon) seemed like the next step. You could do calligraphy in place of lines, but it would be more like a poster then, and the message of the words would predominate. Since the moon is full right now, maybe it's time for a mini-series in homage to Gottlieb. On reading his bio, I learned the following:
He was born in New York City, left high school in 1920 to work at odd jobs while taking night classes at the Art Students League with John Sloan and Robert Henri. He learned of the revolutionary breakthroughs in European painting & took a disappointing trip to Paris, (he met none of the French artists he had heard about.) Returned to the US to finish high school and continue painting. By 30's, Gottlieb exhibited regularly with "The Ten," a NY group of avant-garde painters. Around this time he also participated in the Federal Arts Project . After he moved to the Arizona desert in 1937 his work became more Surrealist and back in NY two years later he met European Surrealists who introduced him to the concept of the subconscious and the importance it can play in one's work.