Abstract expressionism
Post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s.
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Barnett Newman
American artist.
He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky (born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism.
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor.
Mark Rothko
American abstract painter of Latvian Jewish descent.
Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American Abstract Expressionist movement of modern art.
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist.
Color field
Style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.
It was inspired by European modernism and closely related to abstract expressionism, while many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering abstract expressionists.
Mark Tobey
American painter.
His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophically from most Abstract Expressionist painters.
Action painting
Style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.
The style was widespread from the 1940s until the early 1960s, and is closely associated with abstract expressionism (some critics have used the terms "action painting" and "abstract expressionism" interchangeably).
André Masson
French artist.
Living in New Preston, Connecticut his work became an important influence on American abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock.
Agnes Martin
Canadian-born American abstract painter.
Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist.