A plaster cast of a manhole cover from the streets of Manhattan is a testament to this artist's experimental use of materials
New York School
Rauschenberg's Signs is a montage of iconic symbols of 1960s culture
Robert Rauschenberg, Signs
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.
In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing ...
A portrait of a president transformed by tragedy.
Homage to JFK: Rauschenberg’s Retroactive I
Frankenthaler doesn’t paint the landscape per se, but offers an intuitive response to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia.
Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea
Though hand painted, this image’s regularity erased any sign of individuality or emotional investment in the work.
Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and ...
How does Reinhardt make his “black paintings” with no black at all?
The Painting Techniques of Ad Reinhardt
Be patient! From the depths of Reinhardt’s black canvases, color and shapes emerge.
Ad Reinhardt
Layers of built-up wax obscure headlines and newspaper images in this painting composed of three canvases.
Jasper Johns, White Flag
This collaboratively created work brings the darkly psychological space of Americana into the gallery.
Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Useful ...
Art on the edge of perception—Ad Reinhardt works with the biology of human sight and rewards close looking.
Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting
Rauschenberg includes a pillow and a quilt in this work—elements of a bed—but no one will use it for a nap.
Robert Rauschenberg, Bed
Is this a painting, or is it a flag?
Jasper Johns, Flag
She was a pioneer of the “soak-stain method” of diluting acrylic paint and pouring it into unprimed canvas.
Helen Frankenthaler, The Bay
Clothing, paper, a paint tube, photographs, and a stuffed bald eagle—but it’s more than an accumulation of debris.
Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon
Abstract Expressionism, combined with Pop from Britain, were major influences on artists of the 1950s and 60s.
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