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Abstract Expressionism
1946 – 1960
What is Abstract Expressionism?
1940-1960
"To us, art is an adventure into an unknown world of the imagination which is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing. We assert that the subject is critical." - New York Times (June 1943), Gottlieb, Rothko, and Newman
Abstract Expressionism is…
Spontaneous
Number 28, 1950, Jackson Pollock
Abstract Expressionism is…
The Inner Psyche
Woman, 1950Willem de Kooning
Abstract Expressionism is…
Unconventional
Adolph Gottlieb
Pink Ground,
1972
Abstract Expressionism is…
informal
No. 13 (White, Red, on Yellow), 1958Mark Rothko
Rothko said, "I paint big to be intimate." The notion is toward the personal (authentic expression of the individual) rather than the grandiose.
Abstract Expressionism is…
Dynamic
Black Reflections, 1959Franz Kline
Energetic Gesture
Abstract Expressionism is…
Night Creatures, 1965Lee Krasner
The Artists
Jackson Pollack
Drip and Pour
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Citations
• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abex/hd_abex.htm (Accessed 27 March 2010).