Looking closer, Everhart began to see echoes of Chinese ink paintings and the black - and - white paintings of abstract expressionists of the»40s and»50s, such as Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. (artbusinessnews.com)
To explore the little - known flowering of abstract expressionist painting in Soviet bloc countries during the Cold War, the exhibition presents art by five artists: Andrej Jemec, Tadeusz Kantor, Jan Kotík, Edo Murtić and Romul Nutiu. (hamptonsarthub.com)
And his sweeping brushmarks sold in part because his timing was right: In the 1950s, the U.S. and European art worlds were just embracing the post-World War II gestural works of abstract expressionist painters like Robert Motherwell. (washingtonpost.com)