Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...
Artists (left to right) Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, and Jack Tworkov at the Provincetown home of Hans Hofmann during Thanksgiving, 1958. Hanging above them is a work by Joan Miró, which was the crown ...
The painter Franz Kline was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1910, and he crafted a more complicated body of work than practically any other artist from Luzerne County. For decades, admirers have circled his ...
An exhibition in San Diego reveals the photographer’s influence on the work of Abstract Expressionist painters Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning William Meyers ...
The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...
Abstract Expressionism is one of art history’s most well-worn stories. After the Renaissance and Impressionism, maybe the most well-worn. Jackson Pollock. Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Lee Krasner.
My painting / Jackson Pollock -- The romantics were prompted ; Two statements from The tiger's eye / Mark Rothko -- The first man was an artist ; The sublime is now ; Ohio, 1949 / Barnett Newman -- ...
“Hell, half the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden,” Painter Franz Kline once remarked, “worrying about the noise of the traffic on the way to Boston. The other half use up their lives being ...
Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...