Sentences with phrase «as abstract expressionism took»

This trend strengthened further after World War II, as abstract expressionism took hold in New York - the new capital of world art.

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Bearden's relationship with abstract expressionism was an uneasy one, in part because of his figurative work, which often took up mythic subjects, was seen by some as out of step with the trajectory of art at the time.

Aged 54 when he took up permanent residence there in 1967, Guston had long been accepted as one of the key figures of abstract expressionism.

Strauss - Kahn takes the perp walk in Angel Vergara's Belgian pavilion, in which TV news flashes across seven screens while a gentle paintbrush dabs away at the luminous glass surfaces, as if trying to make sense of the onslaught of appalling images of lust, violence, greed — the seven deadly sins in grim total — turning television into both the base and the source for a new kind of helplessly beautiful abstract expressionism.

Postwar Modern Art and the Rejection of Modernism The development of a new American art movement was held in abeyance until after World War II, when the United States took the lead in the formation of a vigorous new art known as abstract expressionism with the impetus of such artists as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning.

De Kooning took care, furthermore, not to name her husband, referring to him as «a friend» in her account, which has since become one of abstract expressionism's classic stories.

His work took on a singular style, which defies categorization but shows the influences of the dominant movements of the 1950s, abstract expressionism and surrealism, as well as the dominant movements of the 1930s and early 1940s, social realism and the American Scene.

Its origins lie in McCarthy's sideways take on abstract expressionism, on Viennese aktionism, minimalism, and what came to be known as process art and body art.