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New exhibit at Speed Art Museum explores women who shaped abstract expressionism

A new exhibit at the Speed Art Museum is shining a spotlight on the women who helped shape one of America's most influential ...
Hyperallergic

'Women of Abstract Expressionism’ Challenges the Canon But Is Only the Beginning

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...

Tracing art from impressionism through to abstract expressionism, and from Ohio to Adelaide

A feast of modern art from the Toledo Museum of Art has just opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Featuring some big ...
Psychology Today

Is AI the New Abstract Expressionist?

In the aftermath of World War II, abstract expressionism burst onto the art scene as a defiant rejection of traditional forms and conventions. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Hyperallergic

Sexism and the Canon: Three Female Artists Reflect on 'Women of Abstract Expressionism'

DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original. Trine Bumiller: At Rhode Island School of Design I ...
The New Criterion

The women of Abstract Expressionism

On Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel. Jackson Pollock was dead. Drunk, as usual, he’d overturned his Oldsmobile in the summer of 1956, ...
WAMC

"Heroines Of Abstract Expressionism" At The Fenimore Art Museum

September Twenty-third, 1980, Lee Krasner, ink, crayon and collage on lithographic paper, Richard P. Friedman and Cindy Lou Wakefield Collection Overcoming obstacles such as sexism and discrimination ...
Artnet

Painter Mary Abbott, a Fixture of New York’s Abstract Expressionist Movement, Has Died at Age 98

Abstract Expressionist painter Mary Abbott, known for her colorful canvases and sweeping brushstrokes, has died at the age of 98. McCormick Gallery in Chicago, which has represented the artist for ...
PBS

I. An Introduction to Abstract Expressionism

Students will learn about several Abstract Expressionists and identify the ways in which they use color, line and form to express themselves. Objectives: Students will be able to understand the ...
Forbes

Fenimore Art Museum In Cooperstown, New York Shines Spotlight On Women Of Abstract Expressionism

You know Cooperstown, New York, as the home of Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Johnny Bench and the greats of baseball history who take up residence at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Joining them in this ...
Forbes

Sun, Sand And Abstract Expressionism This Summer In Florida And New York

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Beach reads. Sunscreen. Umbrella drinks. Screaming kids. Sunburns. Stifling ...
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The secret link between abstract art and human emotion

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...