Once obscured, the talented Abstract Expressionist painter Michael West is now poised for a major rediscovery.
Deeply influenced by American abstract expressionists, Randall David Tipton’s water media and oil landscapes share his love of nature.
Worshipped by Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, Milton Avery expressed his vision of the world through harmonious colour and simplified forms. Now, for the first time, see the North American painter’s work this side of the Atlantic.
BASEL, Switzerland — Fifty-five years ago, the exhibition The New American Painting arrived at the Kunsthalle Basel. It was the first stop on a yearlong tour that touted the work of seventeen Abstract Expressionists before eight European countries — the first comprehensive exhibition to be sent to Europe showing the advanced tendencies in American painting. All but five of the original artists from the show had work on view at last weekend's Art Basel, where postwar American painting and sculpture dominated the halls.
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
One of the twentieth century's most profound Abstract Expressionists, American artist Sam Francis (1923-1994) is noted as one of the first post-World War II painters to develop an international reputation. Francis created thousands of paintings as well as works on paper, prints and monotypes, housed in major museum collections and institutions around the world. Regarded as one of the leading interpreters of color and light, his work holds references to New York abstract expressionism, color field painting, Chinese and Japanese art, French impressionism and his own Bay Area roots.
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.
Read 3 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. "I know for my own part that I have no programme, only the inexplicable longing to grasp wha…
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) was a French-American artist. Best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the subconscious. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not for
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
Philip Guston, (born June 27, 1913, Montreal, Canada—died June 7, 1980, Woodstock, New York, U.S.), American painter, a member of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists. Guston studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles for three months in 1930 but was largely self-taught. From 1935 to 1940 he painted a number of murals for the Federal Art Project. He taught at the State University of Iowa in 1941–45 and at other universities after that time. Guston had abandoned all figurative or realistic references in his work by 1950. His characteristic style developed shortly thereafter in his White Painting
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Abstract Expressionism is largely remembered as a movement defined by the paint-slinging, hard-drinking machismo of its poster boys Jackson Pollock a...
I saw Caio Fonseca’s work in Boston and was intrigued by his layering, leaving intentional shapes of the first layer exposed. Fonseca is an American painter best known for his use of tonal harmonies and balanced compositions. Since I paint by building up layers with some areas leaving the first layer exposed, but not in … Continue reading Caio Fonseca – American Abstract Artist →
Lyonel Feininger American Abstract Art
[In Expressionism] the expression was to determine the form, and no longer be obliged to appear in the guise of nymphs, heroes and allegories... [Expressionism is] the process whereby the colours and forms themselves become the repositories of the pictorial idea. (p.7) 1972 is a long time ago, before the politically correct mindset, before feminism, anti-racism…
