visual arts at mid-century. mondrian & ernst abstract expressionism

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Visual Arts at Mid-Century

Mondrian & Ernst

Abstract Expressionism

Loose vs. Tight Painting Style

Hans Hoffman (1880-1966)

Arshile Gorky (1905-1948)

Action Painting

William De Kooning (1904-1997)

Woman I

De Kooning, Woman on a Bicycle, 1952-53, Abstract

Expressionism

Sumerian Votive figures

Woman on a Bicycle

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)

“Jack the Dripper”

Pollock, Convergence, 1952, Abstract Expressionism

Color Field Painting

Mark Rothko (1903-1970)

Acrylic on Paper

Rothko, Untitled, 1960, Abstract Expressionism

Helen Frankenthaler (b.1928)

Frankenthaler, Before the Cranes, 1958, Abstract Expressionism

American Realist Tradition

Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

House by the Railroad

Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, Realism

Sculpture

Segal, Bus Riders

Nonfigurative Sculpture

Smith, Cubi XVIII

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Calder, Big Red, 1959, Mobile

Architecture at Mid-Century

Seagram Building & Chase Manhattan Bank

TWA Terminal

Guggenheim Museum interior

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