Abstract expressionism is coming to Washburn University. Mulvane Art Museum has opened a new exhibit: "Women of Abstract Expressionism." The exhibition contains paintings and drawings curated from the ...

The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth. We all know the art market is unceasingly hungry, and previously sidelined women artists are the perfect food. But that ...

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 ...

He wrote seminal texts on the artists Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, in a jargon-free style that won him readers far outside the art world. By Clay Risen David Anfam, a British art historian who won ...

“Abstract Expressionists: The Women” was first displayed at the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas. After leaving the Muscarelle, ...

Artist Joan Mitchell’s bold, lyrical canvases made her one of the defining voices of Abstract Expressionism — and one of the few women to claim an enduring place in the movement’s history. A century ...

My painting / Jackson Pollock -- The romantics were prompted ; Two statements from The tiger's eye / Mark Rothko -- The first man was an artist ; The sublime is now ; Ohio, 1949 / Barnett Newman -- ...

Abstract Expressionism is one of art history’s most well-worn stories. After the Renaissance and Impressionism, maybe the most well-worn. Jackson Pollock. Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Lee Krasner.

We were told that women were on the peripheries of the artistic movement, while in fact they were driving it forward, energetically engaging in this radical pictorial language. Already a member? Sign ...