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Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) - United States (Cody)
Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Art, Expressionism
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety he was a major artist of his generation. ...... |
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Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) (1903 - 1970) - Latvia (Dvinsk)
Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Surrealism, Expressionism
马克·罗斯科，乳名Marcus Rothkowitz （拉脱维亚语：Marks Rotko，1903年9月25日－1970年2月25日）生于沙俄时代的拉脱维拉，1910 移民美国。年青时以兼职赚取费用求学，当过演员、场记、画家、待者、挨过饿。1929年成为一所犹太教会的兼职教师，也是表现主义(Ten)十的创始成员。后因患病、沮丧、忧郁、酗酒及服用过量镇定剂和抗忧郁药物，导致于1970年切断静脉自杀身亡。尽管他本人排斥被打上流派分类的标签，但他的作品和画风依然被认为是抽象表现主义的典范之作。 1903年9月马克·罗斯科生于沙俄时期的陶格夫匹尔斯，今属拉脱维亚。其父佳柯比是一位药剂师和知识分子。和沙俄时代其他城市犹太裔的境遇不同，罗斯科一家并未遭受排犹主义的直接暴力影响，但是犹太人在当时的大环境...... |
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Joan Miro (1893 - 1937) - Spain (Barcelona)
Abstract Art, Abstract Expressionism, Suprematism, Surrealism, Cubism, Fauvism, Modernism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Realism
Joan Miró i Ferrà (Catalan: [ʒuˈan miˈɾo] 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de ...... |
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Fra Angelico (1395 - 1455) - Italy (Rupecanina)
Early Renaissance, Abstract Expressionism
Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro c. 1395 – February 18, 1455) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". He was known to contemporaries as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John of Fiesole) and Fra Giovanni Angelico (Angelic Brother John). In modern Italian he is ...... |
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Willem De Kooning (1904 - 1997) - Netherlands (Rotterdam)
Abstract Expressionism
Willem de Kooning (/ˈwɪləm də ˈkuːnɪŋ/ Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm də ˈkoːnɪŋ] April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and moved to New York in 1927. In the post-World War II era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as Abstract expressionism or "action pain...... |
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Jasper Johns United States (Augusta)
Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism
Jasper Johns is a non-fiction coffee table book written by Michael Crichton about the artist Jasper Johns. It was originally published in 1977 by Harry N. Abrams Inc in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a second revised edition (ISBN 0810935155) was published in 1994. The psychiatrist Janet Ross owned a copy of the painting N...... |
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Edward Hopper (1931 - 1967) - United States (Upper Nyack)
Realism, New Realism, Social Realism, Abstract Expressionism
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern ...... |
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Gerhard Richter Germany (Dresden)
Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual Art
Gerhard Richter (German: [ˈʀɪçtɐ] born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style. In October 2012, ...... |
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Philip Guston (1913 - 1980) - Canada (Montreal)
Abstract Expressionism, Neo Expressionism, Social Realism, Expressionism, Metaphysical Art
Philip Guston, born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo-expressionism in painting, abandonin...... |
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Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948) - Turkey (Khorgom)
Post-Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism
Arshile Gorky (/ˌɑːrʃiːl ˈɡɔːrkiː/ born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent most his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has ...... |
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Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011) - United States (Lexington)
Abstract Expressionism, Neo Expressionism, Minimalism
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (/saɪ ˈtwɒmbli/ April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011 ) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but chose to live in Italy after 1957. His paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fi...... |
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Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) - United States (Port Arthur)
Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism
Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur (Texas), 22 de Outubro de 1925 - Flórida, 12 de Maio de 2008) foi um artista do Expressionismo abstracto e Pop art. Rauschenberg estudou no Kansas City Art Institute, na Academie Julian em Paris, e com Josef Albers no Black Mountain College na Carolina do Norte, antes de se fixar em Nova York, onde estudou no Art St...... |
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Barnett Newman (1905 - 1970) - United States (New York)
Color Field, Abstract Expressionism
Barnett Newman (29 de enero de 1905 - 4 de julio de 1970) fue un pintor estadounidense al que se relaciona con el expresionismo abstracto y un destacado exponente de la pintura de campos de color (color-field painting). Newman nació en Nueva York, hijo de inmigrantes judíos del Este de Europa. Estudió filosofía en el City College of New York y trab...... |
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Theo Van Rysselberghe (1862 - 1926) - Belgium (Ghent)
Pointillism, Post-Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism
Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 14 December 1926) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the century. Born in Ghent to a French-speaking bourgeois family, he studied first at the Academy of Ghent under Theo Canneel and from 1879 at the Académie Royale des Bea...... |
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Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) - United States (Centerville)
Abstract Expressionism
Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976) was an American painter. His densely structured compositions, inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism, although the motives for his compositions differ philosophically from most Abstract Expressionist painters. His work was widely recognized throughout the United States a...... |
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Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 1993) - United States (Portland)
Expressionism, Color Field, Abstract Expressionism
Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His later work (best known as the Ocean Park paintings) were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim. Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr. was bor...... |
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