I remember photographs of my mother and grandmother taken in
the 1950s in similar styles.
Not exact matches
I love my new - to - me swing jacket, a repro
1950's
style (
similar, but I faint at that price), thrifted
in St. Petersburg.
The 1949 and
1950 styling was
similar, with a single central «bullet»
in the frowning chrome grille.
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and
similar variations) was a mid-20th Century art movement made up of a group of artists
in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working
in the prevailing
style of Abstract Expressionism
in favor of a return to figuration
in painting during the
1950s and onward into the 1960s.
Inspired by Pollock's drip
style, her soak -
in technique resulted
in fresh, appealing expanses of color that spurred
similar experiments by Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis (whom Greenberg took to Frankenthaler's studio
in 1953) and prefigured Color Field painting of the later
1950s and 1960s by Louis, Noland, Jules Olitski, and Frankenthaler herself.
Freud's early works were «spikey», figures were heavily lineated -
similar in style to German Expressionists like Max Beckmann (1884 -
1950) and Otto Dix (1891 - 1969).