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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"To use the whole social fabric of our society as a point of departure for abstraction reanimates it, dusts it off."
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.
What happens when a painting is vandalized? See how conservators at Tate leapt into action to save a painting.
Newman called the lines in his paintings “zips.” Learn how they’re made and how they work.
Kline’s gallerist broke into his studio and replaced cheap paint with fine art paint—but Kline didn’t thank him.
Breaking the rules is a theme of