Manso combined two different art movements, the French world of Impressionism ushered in by Bonnard and Cezanne, and the American world that accepted a new way of seeing, abstraction. He exhibited with Pollack, and was a close friend and admired by famed artist Robert Motherwell. Manso sat at the precipice of avant-garde and cutting edge. In the second half of his life, he took on Assemblages, part collages, part paintings. If you don't closely examine the untitled landscape below, it looks like an abstract painting. It is a fluid composition, rich with color, but take a closer look. It consists of torn packing papers in free-form shapes, acrylic paints, and splattered India ink. It is clear that some torn papers were painted with colors first and then ripped into smaller elements, then attached with glue. At other times, he reduced the paper to its most transparent qualities, making the paper look like brush strokes. Once all the elements were assembled, he then in-paints...