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melancholy scribbles and drips: one dribble at a line
Mere doodling of only psychological interest? Even then. After its initial surge of authenticity could abstract expressionism be sustained? The mendaciousness of the art industry to hype this style knew no bounds. Like Marcel Duchamp asserting that everyone is an … Continue reading
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Tagged american abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, roberto matta, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, stanley william hayter, Surrealism, Tony Matta
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the washington square drips and splatters
Hard to pinpoint what brought them together, this collection of opposites that endured to the end. Arshile Gorky was a late and marginal member in Andre Breton’s surrealist circle and he may have transmitted the importance of trusting introspection, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Andy Warhol, Arshile Gorky, atelier 17, Clement Greenberg, harold rosenberg art critic, Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro, John Graham, matta echaurren, Pablo Picasso, stanley william hayter, Walt Whitman, willem de Kooning, Yves Tanguay
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liberating the line: painting the bestial floor
Was the use of automatism to pry into abstraction and the subconscious essential to Abstract Expressionism? It can be asserted that it was significant in unlocking the mystery and meaning of the abstract plane; a gateway into the world of … Continue reading