Dripping, flinging, rolling, soaking—the Abstract Expressionists did everything academic tradition said not to do with paint.
1945 - 1980
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Conrad Marca-Relli, Cristobal
White, red, and aqua panels create an entire universe of space, absence, and form.
Lee Krasner, Re-Echo
The organic forms and radical abstraction of Krasner's painting makes her canvas come alive.
Norman Lewis, Untitled (Subway Station)
Through abstraction, Lewis conveys a fleeting moment of figures waiting at a New York City subway station.
What is: Abstract Expressionism?
What connects the group of artists who we have come to know as Abstract Expressionists?
Hedda Sterne, Number 3—1957
Stripes of industrial spray paint on this canvas recall the industrial city and undersides of highways
Norman Lewis, Untitled
Lewis leaves behind the figure for abstracted fragments at the end of World War II
Beauford Delaney, Marian Anderson
Delaney celebrates the famous opera singer Marian Anderson as a modern icon of Black excellence and civil rights.
Mark Bradford on Clyfford Still
"To use the whole social fabric of our society as a point of departure for abstraction reanimates it, dusts it off."
Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm
Looking closely at Jackson Pollock's great drip painting, Autumn Rhythm.
