Abstract Expressionist Painting in AmericaPresents a thorough discussion, based on first-hand knowledge, of the gifted painters of the New York School: Hans Hoffmann, Mark Tobey, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. |
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... figure canvases . It is like a flat wall of living musculature : a fusion of the post- Cubist structural tradition , the naturalistic over- tones of the " flat landscape " of the mind , and the human subject matter of Expressionism ...
... figure canvases . It is like a flat wall of living musculature : a fusion of the post- Cubist structural tradition , the naturalistic over- tones of the " flat landscape " of the mind , and the human subject matter of Expressionism ...
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... figures are flattened , and before he ceases to use figure motifs the body is separated into significant details arranged in low relief . The early figures of Gorky and de Kooning are also flat- tened into the format , but in the ...
... figures are flattened , and before he ceases to use figure motifs the body is separated into significant details arranged in low relief . The early figures of Gorky and de Kooning are also flat- tened into the format , but in the ...
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... Figure ( de Kooning ) 4 Figure ( de Kooning ) 24 King , The ( Hofmann ) I12 Figure ( Hofmann ) 104 Figure ( Motherwell ) 156 Landscape in the Snow ( Tobey ) 237 Figure in Archaic Sea ( Rothko ) 212 Landscape Table ( Gorky ) 74 Figure in ...
... Figure ( de Kooning ) 4 Figure ( de Kooning ) 24 King , The ( Hofmann ) I12 Figure ( Hofmann ) 104 Figure ( Motherwell ) 156 Landscape in the Snow ( Tobey ) 237 Figure in Archaic Sea ( Rothko ) 212 Landscape Table ( Gorky ) 74 Figure in ...
Contents
The Spread of Abstract Expressionism | 1 |
Pictorial Relationships | 39 |
The Creative Process | 91 |
Copyright | |
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