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**Abstract Expressionism, shortly described an explained in text-quotes + art-images ** - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in American art history

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Abstract Expressionism was the first independent modern American art movement. It is here briefly described in selected text-quotes + art-images as illustration. Abstract Eexpressionism is here explained by a selection short text-quotes in its goal, meaning and characteristics by American art-critics and involved artists as well.

The selected quotes are taken from several famous art-critics in the United States, like Barbara Hess, Karen Wilkin and Clement Greenberg. Included are also the quotes of the involved artists in Abstract Expressionism. Their views and art-discoveries in those days describe very well the ‘kitchen’ of the movement.
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Some selected text-quotes on American Abstract Expressionism - as a short introduction of the extended quotes, in the PDF:

  • ’Some painters, including myself, do not care what chair they are sitting on (which art-group they belong to). It does not even have to be a comfortable one… …They do not want to “sit in style.” Rather, they have found that painting… …is a way of living today, a style of living, so to speak.’ - - quote by Willem de Kooning, in his speech ‘What Abstract Art means to me’, February 1951

  • If I feel a painting I’m working on doesn’t have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.’ - short quote of American artist Franz Kline, in ‘Conversations With Artists’, Selden Rodman, 1957

  • ’If the label ‘Abstract Expressionism’ means anything, it means painterliness: loose, rapid handling, or the look of it; masses that blotted and fused… …large and conspicuous rhythms; broken color, uneven saturations or densities of paint, exhibited brush, knife, of finger marks…’ - quote of art-critic Clement Greenberg, in ‘Art International’, Oct. 1962
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