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Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg (January 16, 1909 - May 7, 1994) was an influential American art critic who was closely associated with the institutionalization of abstract art in the United States. In particular he promoted the Abstract Expressionism movement led by Jackson Pollock. Greenberg made his name as an art critic with his essay Avant Garde and Kitsch, published in 1939...

Jackson Pollock

s permanent collection Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential United States artist and a major force in the abstract expressionism movement. He was born in Cody, Wyoming, and later moved to New York in 1929, where he studied under Thomas Hart Benton (painter). Pollock moved away from figurative art, and developed techniques of splashing and dripping his paint onto canvas (action painting). Pollock was dubbed Jack the Dripper due to his painting style. From 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project, in..

Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an United Statesn post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. The term was first applied to American art in 1946 by the critic Robert Coates (critic)...

Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904-March 19, 1997) an abstract expressionist painter was born in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The Rotterdam Academy of Fine Art accepted de Kooning as a student in 1916. In 1926 he stowed away on a boat to New York City. De Kooning made his living for a time as a house painter. Later, he was a teacher at Black Mountain College with John Cage, Buckminster Fuller and Josef Albers...

Action painting

Action painting, sometimes called gestural abstraction, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting works emphasise the physical act of painting itself. The style was particularly widespread in the 1950s and 1960s, and is closely associated with abstract expressionism (some critics have used the terms action painting and abstract expressionism interchangeably). A comparison is often drawn between the American action painting and the French tachisme...