Sentences with phrase «expressionist machismo»
In any event, they flew in the face of Abstract Expressionist machismo and bravura.
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Pollock comes to mind as a quotation of expressionist machismo.
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The luridly colored spray paint conjures the machismo and brio of the best street artists, while the abstract gestures recall Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko and Richard Pousette - Dart.
23 As Jones and Jonathan D. Katz have convincingly argued, silence emerged as Cage's primary means of countering the fervently expressive, highly individualistic machismo associated with Abstract Expressionism.24 It was a construct that gave him room to act independently as an artist in a world dominated by the abstract expressionist paradigm and to create space for himself as a gay man in the atmosphere of homophobia that permeated postwar American culture.
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.