Sentences with phrase «as abstract expressionism dominated»

As abstract expressionism dominated the American art world, Bloom became disenchanted with it, calling it «emotional catharsis, with no intellectual basis.»

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Coming of age as an artist during the 1960s, on the heels of abstract expressionism during a period when the art - world was dominated by men, she succeeded in expressing her unique artistic vision and voice and continues to do so to this day.

Just as she seemed to find her feet in the 1950s, the male - dominated genre of abstract expressionism exploded, making stars of male contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, and overshadowing her sculptures.

As the monumental scale of abstract expressionism and the irony of pop art came to dominate US modernism, Graves's quiet, meditative work declined in popularity.

Only within the microcosm of abstract painting itself, where one pole is dominated by the extreme reductiveness of the so - called «Radical» painters and the other is exhausted by the sheer scope of Gerhard Richter's all encompassing photo - expressionism could Reed be seen as decadent.

From her an exile in America, through to her struggle to develop as an artist during the post second world war dominated by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and men.

In particular, stories of abstraction have been dominated by larger than life male artists — in the case of abstract expressionism it is hard not to focus on Jackson Pollock or Willem DeKooning, but there were several important women working during that time as well.

Riley describes Little Rock's mainstream art scene as dominated by contemporary Southern artists, regional artists, landscapes, geometric abstraction, smaller scale abstract expressionism, and neo-impressionism.