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New York School New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more
Festival of Britain Festival of Britain
Festival of Britain. A large-scale celebration of British culture mounted in 1951; ostensibly it was meant to commemorate the centenary of the Great Exhibition (held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London), but in fact it was intended as ‘a tonic to the nation’ (the words of Sir ... Read more
Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky , c.1900-48, American painter, b. Armenia as Vosdanig Adoian. He escaped the Turkish slaughter of Armenians, emigrated to the United States in 1920, studied at Boston's New School of Design, and moved to New York City in 1925. An extraordinarily fluid draftsman inspired by Ingres , ... Read more
rodeo rodeo
rodeo , public exhibition of the skill of cowboys in various activities. Events include riding broncos, riding steers, "bulldogging" steers, roping and tying steers and calves, the use of the lasso, and other less closely related activities such as contests of marksmanship. The rodeo was... Read more
Gabriele Munter Gabriele Munter
Münter, Gabriele (1877–1962). German painter, born in Berlin. She was a talented pianist before she took up painting. In 1902 she became a pupil of Kandinsky at the Phalanx School in Munich and she was his lover until the First World War parted them in 1914 (he returned to Russia; she... Read more
John Olsen John Olsen
Olsen, John (1928– ). One of Australia's leading abstract painters, born in Newcastle, New South Wales. He grew up and studied in Sydney, where he had his first one-man exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries in 1955. A year later he was one of the artists who took part in the Direction 1... Read more
Forum Exhibition Forum Exhibition
Forum Exhibition (in full, Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters). An exhibition arranged in New York in 1916 by the critic Willard Huntington Wright with the support of the magazine The Forum, to which he was a regular contributor. The purpose of the exhibition was to pinpoint the best... Read more
Arthur Bowen Davies Arthur Bowen Davies
Arthur Bowen Davies , 1862-1928, American painter and lithographer, b. Utica, N.Y., studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League, New York City. In 1893 he traveled in Europe and exhibited successfully on his return. A president of the Society of Independent Artists, he was... Read more

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