Like other abstract expressionists and the Surrealists before them, Stillman experimented with «automatic» drawing techniques in which the line was allowed to roam freely without conscious control.
Like other abstract expressionists, de Kooning believed in the accident.
Not exact matches
New York was the center of this important phase in the development of
abstract art and a whole new generation known as the
Abstract Expressionists of the New York School (names
like Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, among
others) embraced it to spectacular effect.
I remember there were paintings of political and cultural signs
like a profile of a figure, sometimes mixed in with writings in Hebrew,
other times barely sustained among floods of
expressionist and highly charged
abstract gestures.
There were three kinds of works in Beatrice Caracciolo's recent exhibition: exquisitely animated
abstract expressionist drawings;
others that look more
like landscapes (and which introduce art - historically familiar material in the form of allusions to Chinese landscape and Japanese calligraphy), and unexpectedly bold suspended or freestanding sculptures comprised of zinc sheets mounted on wooden substructures.
Like many
other works in the show, David Hammons» juice - splattered KOOLAID DRAWING defies classification: it resembles a rose colored, saccharine,
abstract expressionist painting, but the titled claims it is a drawing.
For
other abstract expressionist works
like those by Hans Hofmann, see: Greatest 20th - Century Paintings.