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Twenty Well-Known Abstract Painters Who Changed the Way We Look at Painting

The post-World War II American art movement known as abstract expressionism first appeared in the 1940s. It emphasises the spontaneous and dynamic application of paint on the canvas, often using large brushstrokes to depict the emotional and subconscious aspects of the artist’s experience. This movement greatly impacted the development of contemporary art and the mid-20th-century […]

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Franz Kline: An Abstractionist Approach of Exploring Sub Conscious

Abhishek Dixit Franz Kline’s origins lay in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a town that revolved around coal mining and provided little chance for creative nurturing. As a prominent figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement after World War II, he established himself as a talented American artist. Due to a challenging association with his guardians, his formative years

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The \’black-and-white\’ artist, whose journey back into colour was cut short

May 23, On This Day He is dubbed one of the most important yet problematic artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York, and a stalwart of the New York School, alongside luminaries like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, John Ferren, and Lee Krasner. Franz Kline was born on

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