In the aftermath of World War II, abstract expressionism burst onto the art scene as a defiant rejection of traditional forms and conventions. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...

Abstract Expressionism is a storied movement continually re-told at blockbuster museums: We think we know it so well. The story, however, is still wrong. There are no women in it. The most recent show ...

Introduction : internationalism and abstract expressionism / Joan Marter -- The birth of abstract expressionism / Helen A. Harrison -- Implications of nationalism for abstract expressionism / Dore ...

Free-flowing, borderless and unconventional, abstract expression is a journey artists undertake after various experiences. Distancing their practice from the objective referents of everyday life, they ...

LONDON — In 2016–17, the Royal Academy mounted a blockbuster Abstract Expressionism show featuring many of the heavy hitters long recognized by art history: Pollock, Rothko, Still, de Kooning, etc.

The Abstract Expressionists have gone down in art history as a macho band of hard-drinking, paint-flinging American heroes, channelling their angst into monumental masterpieces of abstraction. The US ...

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Most people have heard of Jackson Pollock. But few are familiar with Janet Sobel, the Ukrainian-born American painter who first pioneered Pollock’s iconic drip-painting technique. The Abstract ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Outstanding, astounding, filled with thrills but also with melancholy, Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy is ...

At first glance, you might think the green blob with a single eye and jagged teeth is a child’s rendition of the monster under the bed. The placard underneath the 1947 oil canvas reads: Dwarf by ...