The Artist with His Mother, Arshile Gorky (1926-1936) The Liver is the Cock’s Comb,
Arshile Gorky (1944)
Shared Characteristics
-Large scale of canvas -Spontaneous yet controlled
(planned) movements -Bold brushstrokes -Gesture/action painting
technique -Reworked surfaces -Captures emotion
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Seated Woman, Willem de Kooning (1940)
Pencil drawing of Elaine de Kooning, 1940
Pink Angels, Willem de Kooning - 1945
Excavation, Willem de Kooning-1950 Oil on canvas
Woman I, Willem de Kooning-1950-52
Gotham News, Willem de Kooning-1955
Women, Sag Harbor, Willem de Kooning-1964
Rider (Untitled VII), Willem de Kooning -1985
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
http://www.themathhattan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/jackson-pollock.jpg
Number 32 – Pollock (1950)
http://uploads0.wikipaintings.org/images/jackson-pollock/number-32-1950.jpg
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) – Pollock (1950)
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Blue Poles (Number 11) – Pollock (1952)
http://nga.gov.au/international/catalogue/Images/LRG/36334.jpg
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, Mark Rothko (1944)
Carnival of Harlequin, Joan Miro (1924-1925)
Four Darks in Red, Mark Rothko (1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSiu8qzHV6c
Rothko’s Painting Technique
Start at 1:49
The Rothko Chapel, Mark Rothko (1965)
Untitled, Black on Gray, Mark Rothko (1969)
Hazelton – Kline (1957)
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Black, White, and Gray – Kline (1959)
http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ma/web-large/SF59.165.jpg
Black Reflections – Kline (1959)
http://www.friendsofart.net/static/images/art3/franz-kline-black-reflections.jpg
How Abstract Expressionism Influenced Other Art Movements
Pop Art
Neo-Expressionism
Cecily Brown- Abstract Expressionist today
(Ellsworth Kelly, The Meschers, 1951)
Post-Painterly Abstraction
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