08 abstract expressionism
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ABSTRACTEXPRESSIONISM
Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg
“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first”
“ACTION PAINTING”
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky
“Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.”
Arshile GorkyThe Liver is the Cock’s Comb
Willem DeKooningWillem DeKooning
Willem DeKooning
Willem DeKooning
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
Jackson Pollock
“I am nature."
Jackson PollockShe-Wolf
Jackson PollockMural
Jackson PollockMural
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Franz KlineMahoning, 1956
Philip Guston
Philip Guston
Elaine DeKooningHarold Rosenberg
Elaine DeKooningBull
“COLOR FIELD”
Clyfford Still
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
“If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.”
Mark RothkoNo 1
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman
Ad Reinhardt
Ad Reinhardt
Ad Reinhardt
David SmithPillar of Sunday
David Smith
Mark Di Suvero
Mark Di Suvero
John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain
“Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.”
Joseph Cornell