Sentences with phrase «with leading abstract expressionist»

In 1949, Garde completed a BA in fine arts on the GI Bill at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, where he studied with leading abstract expressionist George McNeil.

Not exact matches

While certainly all of the leading artists who were part of the abstract expressionist movement were involved with color at various points in their career, many of the important masterworks of the movement — such as those by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and key series by Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman — are notable for their lack of strong color in favor of black and white.

In these two - venue talks, guides from the Clyfford Still Museum and the Denver Art Museum collaborate to compare and contrast the work of Clyfford Still and other male abstract expressionists with the leading female artists of the movement.

With his reputation as a leading abstract expressionist secured, Kline concentrated on turning out his new passion.

This style subsequently gave way to a sustained period of abstraction, as Guston became a leading figure in New York's abstract expressionist scene of the 1950s along with Jackson Pollock, a former school friend of Guston's in California.

Perhaps there are abstract elements in German Expressionist art, which, if we could interact with them, could lead us toward a deeper understanding of the meaning of these works.

In 1955, living in Berkeley, CA, Diebenkorn began working figuratively, drawing from the model, painting still lifes, landscapes and interiors, much to the surprise of those who were familiar with his earlier Berkeley series of abstract expressionist paintings leading up to that point.

Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St.. The long - awaited Still Museum, which houses about 2,400 works by the important but underappreciated abstract - expressionist opens at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 18, with a public ceremony led by Mayor Michael Hancock.

The Pollock - Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 to assist individual working artists of merit with financial need through the generosity of Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), a leading abstract expressionist painter and widow of Jackson Pollock.

The PGC is pleased to present Homage to Jack Tworkov (1900 - 1982) a leading Abstract Expressionist whose gestural paintings along with those of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Jackson Pollock formed the basis for the Postwar abstract movement in America.