Abstract Expressionism

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Abstract Expressionism

• Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956)
• Mark Rothko (Jewish-American, 1903-1970)
• Adolph Gottlieb (Jewish-American, 1903-1974)
• Barnett Newman (Jewish-American, 1905-1970)
• De Kooning (Dutch-American, 1904-1997)

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 Jackson Pollock  1912-1956

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  Self-portrait, 1935

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Sea landscape, 1934
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Going West, 1934-35
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• Naked man,
• 1938-41

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• Man with a knife,
• 1938-40

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Naked woman, 1930-33
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Flame, 1934-38
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Orange Head,1938-1942
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Head, 1940-41
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• Birth, 1940-41

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• The She-Wolf, 1943

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• Guardians of the Secret, 1943

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• Pollock, 1943
  Masson, 1942

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Number 1A, 1948
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• Martha Holmes, Jackson Pollock painting in his
  studio, Springs, Long Island, New York, 1949

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• Number 8 1949

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Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950
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• Lavender Mist , enamels, 1954

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White light, 54
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Mark Rothko, 1903-1970

• "I am not an abstract painter. I am not
  interested in the relationship between form and
  color. The only thing I care about is the
  expression of man's basic emotions tragedy,
  ecstasy, destiny."

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• Family portrait taken in Dvinsk. From the left
  Albert and Sonia Rothkowitz, a first cousin, and
  Marcus and Moise Rothkowitz, c. 1912

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• Street scene, 1930s

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• Entrance to Subway Subway Scene,1938

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• Underground Fantasy Subway,c. 1940

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• Self-Portrait,1936

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• Sea Fantasy,1946

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• Number 7,1947/1948

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Multiform, 1947
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  Kandinsky, Fugue, 1914

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• "We favor the simple expression of the complex
  thought. We are for the large shape because it
  has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to
  reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms
  because they destroy illusion and reveal truth."
• Rothko and Gottlieb, New York Times, 1947

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• Multiform, 1947
  No. 17/No. 15 Multiform,1949

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• Multiform, 1947
  1949

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Rothko, 1952

Matisse, Blue Window, 1912
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• 1957

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• Red, white, maroon,1957. 253 x 208 cm

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• Rothko Room (7 paintings for the exclusive
  restaurant Four Seasons in the Seagram
  Building, New York), 1958-1959

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• Untitled Seagram Mural,c. 1958
• The Four Seasons restaurant, the Seagram Building
  in New York City.

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• Untitled No.4,1964

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Rothko, 1964
Malevich, 1914-15
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• Rothko Chapel murals, 1964-1967,
• the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas

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• Centre Triptych for the Rothko Chapel, 1966