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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... style . Never- theless , it is no contradiction of the term modern to recognize the continued use by hundreds of good contemporary painters of rejected forms . Contemporary means , by the very fact of their existence , effectuated the ...
... style . Never- theless , it is no contradiction of the term modern to recognize the continued use by hundreds of good contemporary painters of rejected forms . Contemporary means , by the very fact of their existence , effectuated the ...
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... style ; the figurative Boston expressionists Levine and Bloom introduced fragmenting and flattening devices into their realistic subjects . The list is too lengthy to cite . Year by year what was once the work of an avant - garde has ...
... style ; the figurative Boston expressionists Levine and Bloom introduced fragmenting and flattening devices into their realistic subjects . The list is too lengthy to cite . Year by year what was once the work of an avant - garde has ...
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... style is a touchy one , and statements concerning it should not be made with- out careful study . On the basis of the present evidence we do know , however , that the uniting features of the style which can now be found in England ...
... style is a touchy one , and statements concerning it should not be made with- out careful study . On the basis of the present evidence we do know , however , that the uniting features of the style which can now be found in England ...
Contents
The Spread of Abstract Expressionism | 1 |
The Creative Process | 91 |
Subject Matter and Content | 113 |
Copyright | |
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abstract art Abstract Expres Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb aesthetic ambiguity American Art André Emmerich Gallery areas Arshile Gorky Artists Club become brush brushstroke bulk Cézanne Collage color composition concept courtesy André Emmerich Cubism Dadaism edges Elaine de Kooning elements emotional Ethel Schwabacher exhibition catalogue experience feeling figure film colors flat formal geometric Gogh Gorky Gorky's grisaille Hans Hofmann Hofmann human idea impasto Kooning Kooning's landscape linear Mark Rothko Mark Rothko Foundation Mark Tobey medium ment Miró Modern Art MOMA Bull Mondrian Motherwell Motherwell's motif movement Museum of Modern nature Number object Oil on canvas painters Picasso pictorial means picture plane pigment Pollock purist qualities reality rejection relation representation romantic scale Seitz shapes sionism space spirit stract strokes structure style subject matter surface Surrealism Surrealist symbol tion Tobey Tobey's tone tradition ture unity Unlocated WdeK