I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. Votes: 6
Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks. Votes: 5
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. Votes: 5
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! Votes: 5
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning). Votes: 5
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. Votes: 4
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. Votes: 3
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. Votes: 3
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. Votes: 3
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience. Votes: 3
There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction. Votes: 3
I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too uptight, you're not expressing yourself, why don't you feel freer?" I said, "Well, I don't like that stuff. It means nothing to me." Votes: 3
You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Votes: 6 Al Capp
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. Votes: 6 Donald Judd