Sentences with phrase «heyday of abstract expressionism»

Thiebaud, who was born in 1920 in Mesa, Arizona, began painting his still - lifes as early as 1953, very much in the heyday of abstract expressionism, making him an early trailblazer of the nascent pop style.

Monotype, a process left over from the heyday of abstract expressionism, combines drawing, painting and printmaking.

Greenberg's pre-eminence then rested on defining what came after the heyday of abstract expressionism, a term he never endorsed.

He began his career in the arts studying painting in the late 1940s and early 50s, the heyday of abstract expressionism in New York, first at the Art Students League with Morris Kantor and then at Cooper Union with Steve Wheeler.

The gallery continues, «In his essay for the exhibition catalogue, William Agee describes Hofmann as going against the grain of the artistic canon of the day; «His art was too big, too bold, to be encapsulated in a few years after 1945, the years we generally identify as the heyday of abstract expressionism.»

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MoMA's newest exhibit, Abstract Expressionist New York presents a good overview of the NY school of abstract expressionism during its heyday in the 40's and 50's.

The paintings of Rauschenberg and Johns show so much intelligence we must assume the choice to cling to the modes of abstract expressionism after its creative heyday was not made in the dark, as one suspects it was in the case of de Kooning's followers.

Alice Neel's emotional intelligence and her commitment to figurative painting during the heyday of American abstract expressionism marked her out as a maverick.