It seems strange to say, but to understand the work of one of the most important Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th ...

Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...

(Farmer Gallery) While at the Black Mountain College (summer of 1952) William McGee (1925-1999) studied with Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) and Franz Kline (1910-1962), both of whom would become major ...

Artists (left to right) Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, and Jack Tworkov at the Provincetown home of Hans Hofmann during Thanksgiving, 1958. Hanging above them is a work by Joan Miró, which was the crown ...

An exhibition in San Diego reveals the photographer’s influence on the work of Abstract Expressionist painters Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning William Meyers ...

The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...

Abstract Expressionism is one of art history’s most well-worn stories. After the Renaissance and Impressionism, maybe the most well-worn. Jackson Pollock. Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Lee Krasner.

For many people in Wilmington, Joel Finsel is one of the Port City's most accomplished bartenders. His big book, to date, was 2009's "Cocktails and Conversations on the Astral Plane," a collection of ...

My painting / Jackson Pollock -- The romantics were prompted ; Two statements from The tiger's eye / Mark Rothko -- The first man was an artist ; The sublime is now ; Ohio, 1949 / Barnett Newman -- ...

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