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- Abstract Expressionism - Guggenheim Museum collection of abstract expressionism works. Provides information about the artwork and artists.
- Abstract expressionism - Wikipedia - Encyclopedia article provides background on the art movement and lists some of the painters who's work is representative.
- Walker, Robert - Gallery of bold and powerful abstract paintings. Watercolor and gouache in an abstract expressionism style. Includes artist's biography and contact details.
- Encyclopedia.com: Abstract Expressionism - Brief overview of the movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940's.
- Kang, Ehja - Kang's canvases reflect a marriage of lyrical abstraction and abstract expressionism. She begins her day with prayer and meditation and applies gesso - chalk mixed with glue - to a raw canvas.
- Vanni, Ruggero - Contemporary artist in New York, whose work is evocative of Baroque Italian Paintings and American Abstract Expressionism.
- Beckett, Jeff - Abstract expressionism in acrylic paint by this Illinois artist.
- Bradley, Brianna Dawn - Abstract expressionism, flowers, literature, and unusual 'brushes' all make their way into these intensely colored paintings.
- Pepper, Karyn - Original paintings on ceramic forms. Abstract expressionism that fuses African and European influences and is characterised by a balance between spontaneous gesture, continual control and decorative detail. Images, biography, and comments.
- Abstract Expressionism - Description of the art movement with a list of major period artists.
Wikipedia Articles
- Abstract expressionism - Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.
- Abstract impressionism - Abstract Impressionism is a type of abstract painting (not to be confused with Abstract Expressionism, a similar but different movement) where small brushstrokes build and structure large paintings. Small brushstrokes exhibit control of large areas, expressing the artists emotion and focus on inner energy, and sometimes contemplation, creating expressive, lyrical and thoughtful qualities to ...
- Color Field - Color Field painting is an abstract style that emerged in the 1950s after Abstract Expressionism and is largely characterized by abstract canvases painted primarily with large areas of solid color. An alternate but less frequently encountered term for this style is chromatic abstraction.
- Modern expressionism - Modern Expressionism is a post-expressionistic artistic style in which the artist creates his or her artwork by merging images and/or objects with emotions. This is accomplished through the use of both literal and abstract emphasis on color, texture, obscured subject matter, distortion, unnatural depth, exaggeration and modified surrounding imagery.
- Albert Kotin - Albert Kotin (1907 – 1980) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the post World War II era.