By the mid-50's, Abstract Expressionism was the dominant style of the day, and many young artists were eagerly adopting the thrusting brushstrokes, free - wheeling lines and heroic scale of artists like Jackson Pollock and de Kooning. (nytimes.com)
Like the fragrance of honeysuckle and the radiant hum of the beating wings of the many insects he captures on the surface of his paintings with the meticulous care of an entomologist (he is also a birdwatcher and avid gardener), these are the quiet pleasures of the natural world, cast in heroic scale on his canvases. (hamptonsarthub.com)
Painted at heroic scale in her layered, quick - flick manner, they made economical use of her Bacchanalian nudes and offered copious amounts of falling leaves in every color of the harvest and the planting season, even in I Will Not Paint Any More Boring Leaves (2)(2?). (artforum.com)