Sentences with phrase «known as abstract expressionism»

The most celebrated of these is known as abstract expressionism — abstract, because most of the new art eschewed all traces of visible reality; expressionism, because it appeared to have been created through uncontrolled and sometimes violent painterly gestures.

Albert Alcalay (1917 Paris - March 29, 2008 Boston) was an American abstract artist, also known as an abstract expressionism artist.

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.

In the confined space of his East Hamptons studio in Long Island, Pollock used the drip painting method as a way of touching base with his subconscious in the spirit of what became known as abstract expressionism.

Still's art would quickly morph into a style later known as abstract expressionism, as evident in this 1937 piece titled «PH - 343.»

He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism.

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«Robert Motherwell: The East Hampton Years, 1944 - 1952» will reveal the explorations of Motherwell as he transitioned from surrealism and automatism to abstract expressionism, according to the museum, and reveal works that are lesser known.

In 1946, Diebenkorn enrolled as a student in the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, now known as the San Francisco Art Institute which was developing its own vigorous style of abstract expressionism.

New York City is a worldwide cultural powerhouse known as the center of abstract expressionism, jazz, and the birthplace of hip - hop.

By the end of the forties, he was well - known as one of the founders of abstract expressionism.

Kline was best known for his role as an «action painter» of abstract expressionism, a movement that was popular in New York during the 1940s and 1950s and introduced the world to artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

CV: Peter, your influence as a world class, world renowned art historian, art critic as art writer spans over sixty years and so in terms of re-historicizing abstract expressionism I know that you have been around... Read more»

We all know that at one time (especially in San Francisco) jazz, abstract expressionism and what's known as «Beat» poetry were all part of one culture.

An imagery full of textures and directional clues such that a visual beaded journey, no matter where one begins in one of my beaded pieces, can be as rewarding when experienced as beaded abstract expressionism, as the journey of following the storyline of the images.

I believe that it is true, however I would look at it from a different standpoint from Canaday and as a matter of fact that had been noted, the observation that 10th Street lacked a vitality had been noted several years before, you know, by a great number of people, including Clem Greenberg, I think in print he even coined the term Tenth Street Painting as a deneogatory term which would be that it was kind of old hat, because Clem Greenberg's stand of course is that abstract expressionism really lost it's pertinence after the early fifties.

LEO CASTELLI: Well, as you know, they were not terribly involved in abstract expressionism.

Kline and Guston are counted in the vanguard group known as the New York School of abstract expressionism.

«The first is a painting known as 1944 (image above)-- probably the first largest radical statement of tendencies that would later be hallmarked as abstract expressionism.

As an artist, Terry has painted in various media and styles and is best known for his fluid, dynamic, and colorful large abstractions reflecting a rediscovery of his roots and interest in abstract expressionism.

Despite these experiences, Tàpies was swiftly drawn to the lyrical abstraction known as art informel, especially after 1953, when he experienced the American equivalent, abstract expressionism, at the time of his first one - man show in New York.

I think a lot of young kids by that time had gotten on to abstract expressionism as a kind of - what - you know, kind of game, something that you played with.

«These masterworks reflect MoMA's preeminent collection of abstract expressionism, and include not only the most important and well - known works, but also key works by lesser - known artists such as Norman Lewis and William Baziotes.

The French painter Georges Mathieu was a leading exponent of Art Informel (the French version of abstract expressionism), and is best - known for his spiky calligraphic - style abstract paintings characterized by sweeping gesturalist brushwork, as in Untitled (1959, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York).

One reason Gilliam, for instance, is not well known is that he belongs to the colour field movement, a style often dismissed as a soggy aftermath of abstract expressionism.

For twenty years Trenton Doyle Hancock has gained international renown for his paintings, which fuse cartoon - style drawing and abstract expressionism, creating a fantastical world populated by strange creatures known as the Mounds, their nemeses the Vegans, and Hancock's alter ego, Torpedo Boy, who reflects his lifelong love of comic books and plastic action figures.

I knew that there was something more to it than how it had been viewed — which was as third - rate abstract expressionism — but it still wasn't clear how it could fit in on a visual level.

The leading figure of abstract expressionism on the West Coast, Emerson Woelffer (1914 - 2003) is known for his profound influence as a teacher on many contemporary artists.

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.

In Europe, abstract expressionism was known as Art Informel (formless art), which divided into a gesturalist wing, known as Tachisme (see also the COBRA group), and a softer style called Lyrical Abstraction.