The power and complexity of Abstract Expressionist art lies in the diverse sensibilities of its artists. Here six Royal Academicians respond to some of the movement's greatest painters.

Beside the big macho abstract expressionists were masterful painters lacking only one attribute

Tomorrow, Swann auction house will be presenting a sale, "Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & the New York School," which showcases the prints of the Abstract Expressionist era that are often overlooked because the larger, flashier paintings inevitably grab the spotlight. The sale has a particular emphasis on the co-operative printmaking workshop Atelier 17, which was started in the Paris studio of English painter and draughtsman Stanley William Hayter in 1927. When World War II began, Hayter fled Paris for London and eventually settled in New York after a very short stay in California during the 1940s. The first New York incarnation of Atelier 17 popped up at the New School of Social Research but eventually the studio found a home at 41 East 8th Street in the heart of artistic Greenwich Village. Jackson Pollock lived across the street.

New York’s legendary Cedar Tavern and the surrounding galleries became the hub of the New York art scene in the 1940s and '50s. Morgan Falconer walks the streets where reputations were on the line.

Our In Residence series is dedicated to the photographic documentation of Abstract Expressionist studios, in the company of their striking residents.

There was a lot of publicity and buzz around the male abstract expressionism movement, with it being known as the cult of manhood but female abstract expressionism did not quite have the same ring. Female

Abstract Expressionism is largely remembered as a movement defined by the paint-slinging, hard-drinking machismo of its poster boys Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. But the women who helped develop and push the style forward have largely fallen out of the art-historical spotlight, marginalized during their careers (and now in history books) as students, disciples, or wives of the their more-famous male counterparts rather than pioneers in their own right. (An exception is Helen

Abstract Expressionism is largely remembered as a movement defined by the paint-slinging, hard-drinking machismo of its poster boys Jackson Pollock a...

My, until now, clandestine courtship began at the 2014 Armory Show in March.

Assemblage Art inspired by Louise Nevelson

Rosalind Krauss misreads Twombly in more ways than I can enumerate.

Gerhard Richter

Once obscured, the talented Abstract Expressionist painter Michael West is now poised for a major rediscovery.

In San Francisco and New York, women made some of the greatest Abstract Expressionist paintings

Loosen up your abstract paintings. Learn to trust yourself as the women abstract expressionists of the 1940s-50s did. Free up your abstract paintings.

Joan Mitchell was one of the leading second-generation Abstract Expressionists. Here's why she's important.

Discover how Norman Lewis, one of the few black Abstract Expressionists, had a lasting impact on the art world.

Deeply influenced by American abstract expressionists, Randall David Tipton’s water media and oil landscapes share his love of nature.

Big names and big colour abound in Abstract Expressionism at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), timed to mark one hundred years since the birth of two great Abstract Expressionists; Jackson Pollock and second-wave painter Morris Louis.