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It's odd to think back on the time – not so long ago – when there were distinct stylistic trends, such as ‘this season's colour' or ‘abstract expressionism' or ‘psychedelic music,'
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Elaine de Kooning: The Spirit of Abstract Expressionism, Selected Writings
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I see no reason to paint flowers. You can buy fresh flowers. Still lifes are only an exercise. And abstract expressionism is for the lobbies of big insurance companies. The true calling of an artist is to paint women and the greatest challenge is the naked female form. That's what separates the true art...
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An artist really develops not just from a class situation but from an association of artists around you ... What I got from Abstract Expressionism is that it's really improvisation. It has to do with that spontaneous moment.
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don't need to read a book about abstract expressionism or modernism to understand this show ... It plays with deep ideas, but it's all stuff that people know about.
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They are landscapes with no horizon ... This is when I was really flirting with abstract expressionism, the metaphysical idea of how to paint something like photosynthesis, for example.
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In contrast to the concept of 'concrete expressionism,' a harder-edged, more brittle devolution of abstract expressionism's engagement with the self, Elias was finding a kind of urban figuration visually energized by a sense of socio-political urgency — a 'gesture Pop.'
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They were painting in radically different ways — they were figurative in the day of abstract expressionism ... But they still brought it to their work, with Porter offering whole passages of abstraction.
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Warhol was one of the first artists to bring subject matter back into art after Abstract Expressionism ... He documented and manipulated his world just as Gursky documents and manipulates ours. They are both history painters of sorts.
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I called it Rockabilly painter. It's taken from abstract expressionism and a little bit of Bauhaus -- the cubic forms and shapes
