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Joan Mitchell paints a symphony
It's 1983, and American artist Joan Mitchell is in her studio outside Paris, transforming her emotions and memories into a symphony of colors and shapes. Inspired by her friend's description of an idyllic hidden valley in France, Mitchell creates 21 massive paintings--her Grande Vallée series--bursting with vibrant, energizing hues. But she doesn't paint the valley's flowers and meadows. She paints a feeling about them, creating a harmonious blend of drips, splashes, and brushstrokes in rainbow colors. When the paint dries, it's time to share her valley with the world. This picture book about an influential yet lesser-known American artist provides a snapshot of a creator who deserves as much acclaim as fellow abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning. Author Lisa Rogers shares both the despair and delight Mitchell experienced throughout her career, while illustrator Stacy Innerst's artwork captures the movement and energy of Mitchell's work.
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Three Women Artists
Offering a fresh perspective on the influence of the American southwest—and particularly West Texas—on the New York art world of the 1950s, Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West aims to establish the significance of itinerant teaching and western travel as a strategic choice for women artists associated with traditional centers of artistic authority and population in the eastern United States. The book is focused on three artists: Elaine de Kooning, Jeanne Reynal, and Louise Nevelson. In their travels to and work in the High Plains, they were inspired to innovate their abstract styles and introduce new critical dialogues through their work. These women traveled west for the same reason artists often travel to new places: they found paid work, markets, patrons, and friends. This Middle American context offers us a “decentered” modernism—demanding that we look beyond our received truths about Abstract Expressionism. Authors Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos demonstrate that these women’s New York avant-garde, abstract styles were attractive to Panhandle-area ranchers, bankers, and aspiring art students. Perhaps as importantly, they show that these artists’ aesthetics evolved in light of their regional experiences. Offering their work as a supplement and corrective to the frameworks of patriarchal, East Coast ethnocentrism, Von Lintel and Roos make the case for Texas as influential in the national art scene of the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Art that changed America. Abstract expressionism
By showing people that art can be used to express what we feel, rather than what we see, Abstract Expressionism changed how we define what art is.
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From 'The New Sculpture' to Garden Statuary: the suppression of Abstract Expressionist sculpture
In the 1940s, David Smith, David Hare, Herbert Ferber, Ibram Lassaw, Seymour Lipton and Theodore Roszak were part of a new generation of sculptors working in New York who used welding and other direct-metal techniques to make abstract sculpture. In the 1950s, Abstract Expressionist sculpture was praised for its vitality and inventiveness, yet beginning in the 1960s these works gradually fell out of favour. The sole exception is David Smith, who has been upheld as the only sculptor of merit from this period. This study will contend that the suppression of Abstract Expressionist sculpture is largely due to Clement Greenberg and the lasting impact of his writings. Furthermore, his critique of the new sculpture has shaped subsequent assessments by Michael Leja, Kirk Varnedoe, and Edward Lucie-Smith. It has also contributed to the belief, still current today, that Abstract Expressionism is a movement of painters with no comparable counterparts in sculpture.
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Epilogue
The epilogue provides a look ahead at the main stylistic trends that emerged after the tragic March 10, 1952 coup by Fulgencio Batista, which ended the country’s constitutional rule. A gestural, abstract expressionist trend is evident in the group Los once (The Eleven), while geometric abstraction is reflected in the Pintores Concretos (Concrete Painters). Individual artists like painter Rafael Soriano and sculptor Roberto Estopiñán are discussed, with mention of how their work developed after they went into exile in the early 1960s.
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Larry Rivers : public and private
During his lifetime, Larry Rivers was a prominent figurative artist, noted for bridging the gap between abstract expressionism and pop art. Having made a major impact on the art scene during New York's post-war cultural explosion, Rivers is also largely celebrated for bringing history back into contemporary painting—from his own famous version of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' to the pictorial story of the Jews in 'The History of Matzoh,' and the somber set of large portraits of Primo Levi. His paintings hang in the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Corcoran Museum, the National Gallery, the Guggenheim Museum, museums abroad, and private collections. In the five decades that Rivers was a prominent artist and sometimes jazz musician, he was known for his outspokenness, irreverence, wit, and controversial character. Combining candid interviews and stunning imagery, this dazzling documentary explores his influence. Interviewed in the film are Rivers's dealer Pierre Levai, art historian and critic Sam Hunter, author Arnold Weinstein, his ex-wife Clarice, his children, and Rivers himself.
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Morning. The springs, 1983
This documentary, by director Reiner Moritz, is about Willem de Kooning's painting 'Morning. The Springs' from 1983.
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Mountains and sea, 1952
This documentary, by director Reiner Moritz, is about Helen Frankenthaler's painting 'Mountains and Sea' from 1952.
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In the wing-beat of the swans, 1963
This documentary, by director Reiner Moritz, is about Asger Jorn's painting 'In the Wing-Beat of the Swans' from 1963.
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