Sentences with phrase «emerged as abstract expressionism»

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Abstract expressionism emerged as a major art movement in New York City during the 1950s and thereafter several leading art galleries began to include the abstract expressionists in exhibitions and as regulars in their rosters.

Something dark emerges out of sweeping, gestural marks of colour, simultaneously as earnest as abstract expressionism and as throwaway as neo-expressionism.

As American art historian Thomas McEvilley has written, it was not by accident that abstract expressionism emerged in tandem with bebop.

pop art, movement that restored realism to avant - garde art; it first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of abstract expressionism.

Emerging at a time when painting was increasingly discussed as outmoded, Bochner became part of a generation of artists, including Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, and Robert Smithson, who were looking at ways of breaking with abstract expressionism and traditional compositional devices.

In the 1950s, the London - based Independent Group formed; from which pop art emerged in 1956 with the exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts This Is Tomorrow, as a British reaction to abstract expressionism.