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Mural Pollock Jackson Pollock Number 8 1949 Composition Brown Blue Brown on Blue Rothko   g

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM c1947- Abstract = existing in the mind only, abstruse - hard to understand Abstract Expressionism discarded recognizable forms, expression and emotion - distort the image so it no longer looks realistic Brown Blue Brown on Blue Green Red on Orange Green White and Yellow on Yellow Blue Green Blue on Blue Ground Orange Brown   Notable artists of this period included: William Baziotes Norman Bluhm - 1920-1999/ Willem de KOONING - 1904 / Sam Francis Helen Frankenthaler b.1928/ Arshile GORKY - 1904-1948/ Adolf Gottlieb 1903-1974 / Philip Guston - 1912-1980/ Hans Hoffman Paul Jenkins Franz Kline 1910-1962/ Morris Louis Robert Motherwell - 1915-1991/ Joan Mitchell - 1926-1992/ Louis Morris - 1912-1962/ Barnett Newman 1905-1970, Kenneth Noland - 1920-1999/ Jackson Pollock 1912-1956/ Ad Reinhardt - 1913-1967/ Mark Rothko 1903-1970/ William Scott Antoni Tapies Alma Woodsey Thomas Mark Tobey Bradley Walker Tomlin - 1889-1953/ Clifford Still - 1901-1980/ De Stael 1914-1955 Joseph Albers 1888- Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944 Piet Mondrian 1872-1944 Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957 Lee Krasner 1908-1984 Dubuffet 1901-1985 Francis Bacon 1909-1992 Ellsworth Kelly 1923- Frank STELLA - 1936-1979 Romare Bearden 1911-1988 William T Williams 1942- Raymond Saunders 1934- Notable works of this Period include: Gorky: Agony  - MOMA New York Rothko: Magenta, Black, Green on Orange  - MOMA New York Kline: Abstraction  - Noah Goldowsky Collection New York Still: Painting  - MOMA New York Guston: Opening  - private collection New York de Kooning: Woman 11  - MOMA New York Gottlieb: Black and Black  - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Key Collections Include: The Art Institute of Chicago Guggenheim MY The Menil Collection Houston MOMA New York Aberdeen Art Gallery Scotland Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Texas Montclair Art Museum New Jersey Seattle Art Museum Washington Tate Gallery London Notable Authors and Playwrights included: Jean Anouilh, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, Bertholt Brecht, Botho Strauss, John Osborne, Brendan Behan, Shelagh Delaney, Harold Pinter, Jerzy Grotowski, tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Sam Shephard, Jean Claude van Itallie, David Rabe Notable Composers included: Olivier Messiaen, Poulenc, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer, Witold Lutoslawski, Benjamin Britten, Edgar Varese, John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, George Crumb, Samuel Barber, and Minimism of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Wassily Kandinsky Piet Mondrian Constantin Brancusi Lee Krasner * Clyfford Still * Robert Motherwell * Philip Guston * Richard Diebenkorn * Ad Reinhardt * 1913-1967 Frank Stella * 1936- Agnes Martin * 1912- Dorothea Rockburne * * THE ART BOOK an alphabetical reference guide to 500 of the world's greatest painters and sculptors from antiquity to the present day. published by Phaidon AMAZON.COM in USA AMAZON.CO.UK in UK SEARCH THE WEB-ARTS SITE  AMAZON.COM - in USA WEB-ARTS - WEB-SHOPPING - WEB-ENTERTAINMENT - WEB-EDUCATION - WEB-MUSIC / ALL THE ARTISTS ON THIS SITE ART MENU ONLINE ART STORE  JOB VACANCIES  IN THE ARTS return to WEB-ARTS sitemap return to ART STYLES & PERIODS

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