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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 ...

This ‘new’ era of Abstract Expressionism is the perfect fit for an age of hyper-individualism and AI-powered press releases When I was nineteen and starting out at art school, I wanted to be an ...

Egon Schiele, Sawmill (1913). Courtesy of the Kallir Research Institute, New York The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) recently announced a major gift of more than 130 works of Austrian ...

Like Matisse and Picasso, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Erich Heckel were obsessed with the female nude, as a symbol of their own intense sexuality as well as a seductive return to primitive nature. But ...

Before The Great War of 1914-18 (in the period between 1870 and 1914) there followed, in swift succession, all the movements that were to comprise the mainstream of ‘modern art’. These are the styles ...

Expressionism is an artistic movement that was born in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. The term refers to art in which the image of reality is distorted to express the inner feelings or ...

Although frequently introduced as a student of Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, abstract expressionist painter Lawrence Calcagno was his own master. He was gay at a time when homosexuality was illegal ...

The exhibition shows how the principles of Abstract Expressionism were applied to the medium of collage. Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler at work on a large canvas in 1969. Photo: ...

A new exhibition shows how the early 20th-century German artists, helmed by Wassily Kandinksy and Gabriele Münter, created a space where creativity could flourish without the constraints of gender, ...

Expressionism advocated free and subjective use of the artistic medium as a representation of one's rebellious inner world. Birth, development, artists. The roots of the German Expressionist school ...