ModernismAbstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism
It's not a picture, it's an event
Harder than it looks
1912 – 1956
The sublime takes decades
1880 – 1966
"Art-as-art and nothing else"
1913 – 1967
Staring down the present moment
1905 – 1970
The hope of transcendence through color
1903 – 1970
Different times require different images
1903 – 1974
"The idea of a march was growing"
1907 – 1977
Tackling abstraction at 75
1891 – 1978
Making your own way to contribute to culture
1909 – 1979
Painting with knives
1904 – 1980
Insomnia and aggressive painting
1908 – 1984
Kaleidoscopic abstraction
1928 – 1985
Writer, teacher, and a natural painter
1918 – 1989
Painting as experience
1915 – 1991
Art as competitive sport
1925 – 1992
Violent encounters
1904 – 1997
The patient negotiation of mystery
1936 – 1998
Blowing up modernism
1925 – 2008
Inventing ‘Printage’
1936 – 2009
Bringing Korean abstraction to Paris
1918 – 2009
The power of the scribble
1928 – 2011
The joy of pure color
1928 – 2011
