Collage, copying, and color: the New York School was about more than just gestural abstraction.
1945 - 1980
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Sari Dienes, Star Circle
A plaster cast of a manhole cover from the streets of Manhattan is a testament to this artist's experimental use of materials
Protractor, Variation I by Frank Stella
“Protractor, Variation I” by Frank Stella at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Created in 1969 is composed of rhythmic bands of color in the shape of a protractor. This work is one of nearly 100 paintings in Stella’s Protractor series. Discover more reasons why this is a masterpiece with Franklin Sirmans, Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing by de Kooning
When an artist erases another artist's drawing, is it still a drawing, and whose? This work challenges the art definitions and contexts of its time.
Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea
Frankenthaler doesn’t paint the landscape per se, but offers an intuitive response to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia.
Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor
Though hand painted, this image’s regularity erased any sign of individuality or emotional investment in the work.
The Painting Techniques of Ad Reinhardt
How does Reinhardt make his “black paintings” with no black at all?
Jasper Johns, White Flag
Layers of built-up wax obscure headlines and newspaper images in this painting composed of three canvases.
Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Useful Art #5: The Western Motel
This collaboratively created work brings the darkly psychological space of Americana into the gallery.
Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting
Art on the edge of perception—Ad Reinhardt works with the biology of human sight and rewards close looking.
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