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abstract expressionism abstract expressionism
abstract expressionism movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school. It was the first important school in American painting to declare... Read more
Karel Appel Karel Appel
Karel Appel , 1921-2006, Dutch painter. A member of CoBrA, the European group of the late 1940s to early 1950s allied with abstract expressionism , Appel reacted against the austerity of such earlier Dutch abstraction as that of de Stijl . Characterized by informal brush work, bright, bold color,... Read more
Bay Area Figuration Bay Area Figuration
Bay Area Figuration (or West Coast Figuration). A term applied to the work of a number of American painters active in the San Fran cisco Bay area in the 1950s whose paintings were figurative but strongly influenced by the broad and vigorous brushwork of Abstract Expressionism. The main artists... Read more
Richard Diebenkorn Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn 1922-93, American painter, b. Portland, Oreg. Raised in California, he studied and taught during the 1940s at the California School of Fine Arts, where his approach to color and composition was influenced by the abstract painters Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko . He turned away... Read more
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
Art Informel Art Informel
Art Informel. Term coined by the French critic Michel Tapié to describe a type of spontaneous abstract painting popular among European artists in the 1940s and 1950s, roughly equivalent to Abstract Expressionism in the USA. Tapié popularized the term in his book Un Art autre (1952), and... Read more
Tachisme Tachisme
Tachisme (or Tachism). A style of abstract painting popular in the late 1940s and the 1950s characterized by the use of irregular dabs or splotches of colour (tache is French for spot or blotch). The term was first used in this sense in about 1951 (the French critics Charles Estienne and Pierre ... Read more
Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning , 1904-97, American painter, b. Netherlands; studied Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques. De Kooning immigrated to the United States, arriving as a stowaway in 1926 and settling in New York City, where he worked on the Federal Arts Project (1935). He began experiments... Read more
Mark Rothko Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko , 1903-70, American painter, b. Russia. Rothko emigrated to the United States in 1913. He was a student of Max Weber , then came under the influence of the surrealists. In the mid-1940s Rothko experimented with abstraction, arranging intense colors in irregular shapes. Soon he became a... Read more
Adolph Gottlieb Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb 1903-74, American painter, b. New York City. Gottlieb studied under John Sloan and Robert Henri. In the 1940s he created pictographs which were stylized, primitive symbols set in a gridlike pattern. His abstract dynamic canvases of the following decade (e.g., Frozen Sounds, Number... Read more

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