Abstract-expressionist Painting in America: An Interpretation Based on the Work and Thought of Six Key Figures |
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abandoned abstract Abstract Expressionism Abstract-Expressionist aesthetic ambiguity American architectural Arshile Gorky artist automatism becomes brush brushstroke brushwork bulk calligraphic canvas Cezanne chiaroscuro collage color completely concept Cubism depth drawings edges effect elements emotional experience expression Expressionism Expressionist Fairfield Porter feeling figure film colors flat flattened format geometric gesture Gorky Gorky's grisaille Hans Hofmann Hofmann human idea impasto Kooning Kooning's landscape later linear Mark Rothko Mark Tobey medium modern art modern painting Mondrian Motherwell Motherwell's motifs move movement mural Museum nature object painters panel parallel passages physical Picasso's pictorial means picture plane pigment Pollock position pure purist qualities realistic recession rectangle relation relationships representational Robert Motherwell scale separated shapes Sidney Janis Sochi space strokes structure style subject matter surface symbols Tempera tension texture thirties Thomas Hess three-dimensional tion Tobey Tobey's tone tradition unity volume York