The first Abstract Expressionists were considered madmen to give up their brushes and rely on the sheer force of energy to leave an image, but then the import of atomic bombs, all atomic energy, became realized, and art found no better way of expressing its power.

In 1936, the renowned Abstract Expressionist artist and teacher Hans Hofmann moved his art school from E. 57th Street to 52 West 9th Street.

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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.

Abstract artists, taking as their examples the impressionists, as well as Paul Cézanne and Edvard Munch, began with the assumption that color and shape, not the depiction of the natural world, formed the essential characteristics 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.

In the United States, it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art as a response by artists using impersonal, mundane reality, irony and parody to defuse the personal symbolism and " painterly looseness " of Abstract Expressionism.

Francis Picabia (; born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia, 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953 ) was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with Cubism, Abstract art, Dada and Surrealism.

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

* American Abstract Artists, an artist-run organization formed in 1936 to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art

He lived in New York for most of the 1950s, the height of Abstract Expressionism, but also a time when he became increasingly critical of the art world.

: Stephen Polcari, art historian ; Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience, 1991, Cambridge University Press

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Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

Abstract art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are loosely related terms.

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.

On the one hand he expressed that pop art partook of a trend toward " openness and clarity as against the turgidities of second generation Abstract Expressionism.

James was not a fantasy player and barely acknowledged fantasy baseball in his annual Abstract, but fantasy baseball interest is credited with his strong sales.

In 1989, the Garland Publishing Company brought out a 15-volume collection of major works on Berkeley ; Pappas ' paper “ Abstract ideas and the ' esse is percipi ' thesis ” was included in the third volume, as it was considered to be a significant contribution to Berkeley scholarship.

Baseball writer Bill James, in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, ranked Robinson as the 32nd greatest player of all time strictly on the basis of his performance on the field, noting that he was one of the top players in the league throughout his career.

One approach was to use interdigital electrodes on one glass substrate only to produce an electric field essentially parallel to the glass substrates ( Abstract ).

The first occurrence in English of " ontology " as recorded by the OED ( Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989 ) appears in Nathaniel Bailey's dictionary of 1721, which defines ontology as ' an Account of being in the Abstract ' - though, of course, such an entry indicates the term was already in use at the time.

In 1954 Shelly Manne recorded a piece called " Abstract No. 1 " with trumpeter Shorty Rogers and reedsmith Jimmy Giuffre which was freely improvised.

It was at this time that he adopted the Abstract Expressionism style, being a late convert to this style of painting.

Abstract interpretation was formalized by Patrick Cousot and Radhia Cousot in the late 70s.

Thomas B. Hess wrote that " the ‘ New figurative painting ’ which some have been expecting as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism was implicit in it at the start, and is one of its most lineal continuities.

Abstract: This bibliography on the geographical, water and geological information of Guadalcanal was begun to fill a request for current information needed for the forensics recovery of the bodies of the US Marines of the Lt Col. Frank B. Goettge Reconnaissance patrol that was ambushed in August 1942.

* Mark Tobey, Abstract painter, was born in Centerville.

While in the action painting style of Abstract Expressionism brushstrokes were often large and bold and paint was applied in a rapid outpouring of emotion and energy, the Abstract Impressionist's short and intense brushstrokes or non-traditional application of paints and textures is done slowly and with purpose, using the passage of time as an asset and a technique.

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.

Elaine de Kooning coined the term " Abstract Impressionism " and it was soon used by critic Louis Finkelstein in an attempt to distinguish for Philip Guston the difference between the two forms.

He was an Abstract Expressionist painter in the 1940s, but his career turned upon meeting his future wife.

Clyfford Still ( November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980 ) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.

Clyfford Still was a leader in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II.

Eventually, Greenberg was concerned that some Abstract Expressionism had been " reduced to a set of mannerisms " and increasingly looked to a new set of artists who abandoned such elements as subject matter, connection with the artist, and definite brush strokes.

Starting in the 1930s, Abstract Expressionism severely reduced still life to raw depictions of form and color, until by the 1950s, total abstraction dominated the art world.

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden is home to more than 12, 000 works of art in all media and is a comprehensive collection of American art with prominent holdings in 19th century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop, minimalism, and contemporary art.

In his New Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James is highly critical of Wills as a person, but still calls him one of top 20 shortstops of all time, ranking him # 19.

This comprehensive collection of American art includes prominent holdings of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, Geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Lyrical Abstraction, Color Field painting, Minimalism and Contemporary Art.

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