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4 days ago · Franz Kline (born May 23, 1910, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., U.S.—died May 13, 1962, New York, N.Y.) was an American artist who was one of the leading painters of the post-World War II Abstract Expressionist movement. Kline studied at Boston University (1931–35) and at the Heatherley School of Art, London (1937–38), settling in New York City in the ...
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6 days ago · Abstract Expressionism, broad movement in American painting that began in the late 1940s and became a dominant trend in Western painting during the 1950s. The most prominent American Abstract Expressionist painters were Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko. Others included Joan Mitchell, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston ...
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1 day ago · Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the immediate aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depression and Mexican muralists. [1] [2] The term was first applied to American art in 1946 by the ...
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May 1, 2024 · The term Abstract Expressionism seemed too narrow for the range of experimental painting emerging from his friends’ studios in Manhattan after the Second World War – a group of artists that included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, William Baziotes, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Richard Pousette-Dart, Clyfford ...
May 15, 2024 · Color-field painting, with Action painting, is one of two major strains of the 20th-century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism or the New York school. The term typically describes large-scale canvases dominated by flat expanses of color and having minimum surface detail.
May 8, 2024 · "Abstract Expressionism" published on by Oxford University Press. The dominant movement in American modern art, principally painting, in the late 1940s and the 1950s, characterized by large scale
May 4, 2024 · Summary of Frank Stella. In 1959, Frank Stella gained early, immediate recognition with his series of coolly impersonal black striped paintings that turned the gestural brushwork and existential angst of Abstract Expressionism on its head. Focusing on the formal elements of art-making, Stella went on to create increasingly complicated work that ...
