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