Abstract Expressionism is largely remembered as a movement defined by the paint - slinging, hard -
drinking machismo of its poster boys Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) is a study in soiled, hard -
drinking machismo when he encounters writer Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) at a Key West bar.
Not exact matches
The sculpture has been read as a wry dig at the
machismo of de Kooning and his fellow Abstract Expressionists; a step away from «living an aggressively heterosexual life and getting
drunk both in and out of the Cedar Street Tavern», as art historian Fred Orton has written.