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Abstract expressionism generally expanded and developed the definitions and possibilities available to artists for the creation of new works of art.

It is rooted in the reductive aspects of Modernism, and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract expressionism and a bridge to Postminimal art practices.

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His collection of American art was strong in Abstract expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Dada, Color Field, Lyrical Abstraction, and Neo-Expressionism and he often donated important works from his collection to institutions like MoMA, and other important private museums and University collections like the Norton Simon Museum, the Sheldon Museum of Art and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University among many others.

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* Abstract expressionism of the 1950s represented American artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Hans Burkhardt, Mary Callery, Nicolas Carone, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, and others that participated with figurative expressionism.

Pieces in the collection embrace Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract expressionism.

Pieces in the collection embrace Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract expressionism.

Abstract expressionism was an American post – World War II art movement.

Abstract expressionism has many stylistic similarities to the Russian artists of the early twentieth century such as Wassily Kandinsky.

Abstract expressionism arose during World War II and began to be showcased during the early forties at galleries in New York like The Art of This Century Gallery.

Besides the painters and sculptors of the period the New York School of Abstract expressionism also generated a number of supportive poets, like Frank O ' Hara and photographers like Aaron Siskind and Fred McDarrah, ( whose book The Artist's World in Pictures documented the New York School during the 1950s ), and filmmakers — notably Robert Frank — as well.

Also in Europe, Art brut, and Lyrical Abstraction or Tachisme ( the European equivalent to Abstract expressionism ) took hold of the newest generation.

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Abstract expressionism and Action painting preceded the Fluxus movement, Happenings and the emergence of Performance Art.

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Category: Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism in general expanded and developed the definitions and possibilities that artists had available for the creation of new works of art.

In abstract painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions like Hard-edge painting and other forms of Geometric abstraction like the work of Frank Stella popped up, as a reaction against the subjectivism of Abstract expressionism began to appear in artist studios and in radical avant-garde circles.

The works were characterized by the reductive philosophies of minimalism, and the spontaneous improvisation, and expressivity of Abstract expressionism.

Related to Abstract expressionism was the emergence of combined manufactured items — with artist materials, moving away from previous conventions of painting and sculpture.

This movement rejected Abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior, in favor of art which depicted, and often celebrated material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography of the mass production age.

While the movement is closely associated with painting, and painters like Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, Clyfford Still, Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and others, collagist Anne Ryan and sculpture and certain sculptors in particular were also integral to Abstract Expressionism.

Paul Jackson Pollock ( January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 ), known as Jackson Pollock, was a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, and Canadian artist Jean-Paul Riopelle helped introduce Abstract Impressionism to Paris in the 1950s.

In the 1955 essay " American-Type Painting " Greenberg promoted the work of Abstract Expressionists, among them Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, and Clyfford Still, as the next stage in Modernist art, arguing that these painters were moving towards greater emphasis on the ' flatness ' of the picture plane.

Those lectures and exhibitions are said to have influenced artists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and others who would go on to create Abstract Expressionism.

Initially a painter, Morris ’ work of the 1950s was influenced by Abstract Expressionism and particularly Jackson Pollock.

The collection stresses significant American artistic movements, including regionalism ( with paintings by Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton ) and Abstract Expressionism ( with work by Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, and Helen Frankenthaler ) and Pop Art ( with work by George Segal and Tom Wesselmann ).

In distinction to the emotional energy and gestural surface marks and paint handling of Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Color Field painting initially appeared to be cool and austere.

Color Field pioneers such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb and Robert Motherwell are primarily thought of as Abstract Expressionists.

Abstract expressionism also included anarchist artists such as Mark Rothko and painters such as Jackson Pollock, who had adopted radical ideas during his experience as a muralist for the Works Progress Administration.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, donated in 1950, includes 36 works by Abstract and Surrealist artists, including works of Jackson Pollock, William Baziotes, and Richard Pousette-Dart, and Surrealists works by Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta, and André Masson.

Clement Greenberg proclaimed Abstract Expressionism and Jackson Pollock in particular as the epitome of aesthetic value.

His works in theater include The Tragic History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist, a shadow-puppet musical, and a play called Seventeenth Night ( Δέκατη έβδομη νύχτα-Dekati Evdomi Nychta ), the subject of which is the theorems of Kurt Gödel and the final days of the mathematician's life.

Later in 1995 her paintings started to resemble in some ways the American Abstract Expressionist paintings of Jackson Pollock, with many thinner lines that criss-crossed the canvas.

In 2010, Jackson released his first leader album INTERSPIRIT with Greek bassist Yiorgos Fakanas from Abstract Logix.

Many styles of modern art, including Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Abstract art, Surrealism are represented with works by Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Le Douanier Rousseau, Paul Signac, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, Emil Nolde, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Marc Chagall, Natalia Gontcharova, Mikhail Larionov, Alexander Rodchenko, Kupka, Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg, Paul Klee, Vassili Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Jacques Villon, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Georges Rouault, Balthus, Max Beckmann, Brancusi and Calder, Soutine, Marc Chagall, Modigliani, Kees Van Dongen, Jean Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Magritte, Max Ernst, Miro, Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, René Iché, Nicolas de Staël, André Masson, Tanguy, Jean Tinguely, Yves Klein, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and Francis Bacon.

Perhaps the best example of fractal expressionism is found in Jackson Pollock's dripped patterns.

Clement Greenberg proclaimed abstract expressionism and Jackson Pollock in particular as the epitome of aesthetic value.

Early visits to New York art galleries influenced his artist development, and his work was influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline.

On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the abstract expressionism movement.

More modern pieces showing styles of abstract expressionism, pop art, and art of the 1970s through the end of the century can also be found represented by artists such as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, and Andy Warhol.

He coined the term " abstract expressionism " in 1946 in reference to the works of Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.