Dripping, flinging, rolling, soaking—the Abstract Expressionists did everything academic tradition said not to do with paint.
1945 - 1980
Dripping, flinging, rolling, soaking—the Abstract Expressionists did everything academic tradition said not to do with paint.
1945 - 1980
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Delaney celebrates the famous opera singer Marian Anderson as a modern icon of Black excellence and civil rights
Cathedral by Jackson Pollock is an enamel and aluminum paint on canvas on view at the Dallas Museum of Art and has been part of the collection for more than seven decades. Pollock is known for defining a new era of art by introducing the radical idea of placing his canvas on the ground and applying paint through movement. Works like “Cathedral” exemplified this new style—Abstract Expressionism—that captured the energy and complex emotions of post-World War II America. Learn more about this masterpiece with Agustín Arteaga, the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art.
Joan Mitchell’s Low Water is an abstract oil painting featuring vibrant colors, dynamic brushwork and dripping fields of paint that draw you in both physically and emotionally. Watch Eric Crosby, Director at Carnegie Museum of Art, explore what makes this a masterpiece.
"To use the whole social fabric of our society as a point of departure for abstraction reanimates it, dusts it off."
Looking closely at Jackson Pollock's great drip painting, Autumn Rhythm
Pollock dripped, flung, scattered, and poured paint on canvases spread out on the floor—but why?
Just because a painting isn’t full of angels doesn’t mean it isn’t spiritual and transcendent.
De Kooning painted image after image on this canvas, continually wiping it down and starting again.
Krasner severed the link between art and the everyday world, making important breakthroughs in abstraction.
Rothko wanted his paintings hung as low as possible, so the viewer could enter the painting.
Bank of America's Masterpiece Moment
Crafted in the 16th century, this pair of six-panel screens is painted in ink on paper and showcases both Yamato-e and Chinese painting styles. The work features pine trees―a typical Japanese motif―and it has beautifully captured the richness of a Japanese landscape.