08 abstract expressionism

ABSTRACTEXPRESSIONISM

Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg

“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first”

“ACTION PAINTING”

Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky

“Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.”

Arshile GorkyThe Liver is the Cock’s Comb

Willem DeKooningWillem DeKooning

Willem DeKooning

Willem DeKooning

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Jackson Pollock

“I am nature."

Jackson PollockShe-Wolf

Jackson PollockMural

Jackson PollockMural

Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner

Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

Franz KlineMahoning, 1956

Philip Guston

Philip Guston

Elaine DeKooningHarold Rosenberg

Elaine DeKooningBull

“COLOR FIELD”

Clyfford Still

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

“If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.”

Mark RothkoNo 1

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman

Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt

David SmithPillar of Sunday

David Smith

Mark Di Suvero

Mark Di Suvero

John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain

“Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.”

Joseph Cornell