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Abstract-Expressionism
In the mid 20th century during and after WWII, America and other nations explored a new art freedom that gave rise to a new technique called "Abstract-Expressionism".
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Robert Rauschenberg: Abstract Expressionism
“I don’t want my personality to come out through the piece,” Rauschenberg explained, “ . . . I want my paintings to e reflections of life . . . your self-visualization is a reflection of your surroundings.”
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Willem de Kooning
Article on Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning
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New Interest in Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was not always "Jack the Dripper." And it was not just the dripping and flinging of paint that it appeared to be. The new movie 'Pollock', with Ed Harris as Pollock, and as director, and as producer, puts a new spotlight on a true original - but, the book won a Pulitzer Prize some years ago. Will this movie go up for an Academy Award or two?
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Printmaking from Hopper to Pollock
Prints by Jackson Pollock, Edward Hopper, Louis Lozowick, John Sloan, Louise Bourgeois and others show American society from the late nineteenth century to 1960.
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Percy Wyndham Lewis
This abstract artist is today best-known for his dramatic Vorticist design that shows his commentary on industrialism and modern life.
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Alf Crossley in the Vanishing Landscapes of BC
Will global warming, rampant development, and decades of resource extraction and exploitation make a tabla rasa of the landscapes BC artists paint & draw? (Part 3 of 3)
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Alf Crossley: The Kootenays En Plein Air
Alf Crossley's paintings & drawings traverse 4 decades in the Kootenays of British Columbia. His style transmutes landscapes into iconic archetypes (a 3-Part Series.)
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Alf Crossley: The Kootenays in Brushstrokes
Crossley's paintings incorporate, not only Modernism or elements of natural settings, but advancement of 2-dimensional landscape art into the 21st century (Part 2 of 3).
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Arthur Dove
Painter and collage artist Arthur Dove is noted for being the one of the first Americans to create an abstract expressionist style.
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Guggenheim Museum's New Exhibits
Four special exhibitions at New York's Guggenheim Museum of Art during Summer 2008 return to view seminal works of Modernism from its permanent collection.
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Pollock and Lichtenstein
See if you can answer these questions about these two abstract, pop artists from the 20th century.
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Smithsonian Given Castelli Records
The records of Manhattan's famous Leo Castelli Gallery, documenting its 1957-1999 activities, were donated to the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.
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Two Documentary Films About Art
A review of two documentary films that ask What Is Art?, Who Gets To Call It Art?, and Can Children Be Great Artists?
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Dada Artist Max Ernst
Ernst, advocate for irrationality in art, favored non-traditional artistic methods for the strange, mysterious human, animal, bird, and plant forms they suggested.
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Paul Nash and Yves Tanguy
Learn something new from comments made about these two abstract and surrealist artists who created unique landscapes.
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