Stockstad, Art History, pg. 1131 Abstract Expressionism The rise of fascism and the outbreak of World War II led many leading European artists and writers to move to the United States. By 1942, Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Fernand Leger, Piet Mondrian, and Max Ernst were living in New York where they had a strong impact on the art scene. American abstract artists were most deeply affected by the ideas of the Surrealists, from which they evolved Abstract Expressionism, a wide variety of work produced in New York between 1940 and 1960. This movement pioneered many positional structures, and the sizes of the resulting works. Abstract Expressionism is also known as the New York School, a more neutral label many art historians prefer.
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Stockstad, Art History, pg. 1131
Abstract Expressionism
The rise of fascism and the outbreak of World War II led many leading European artists and writers to move to the United States. By 1942, Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Fernand Leger, Piet Mondrian, and Max Ernst were living in New York where they had a strong impact on the art scene. American abstract artists were most deeply affected by the ideas of the Surrealists, from which they evolved Abstract Expressionism, a wide variety of work produced in New York between 1940 and 1960. This movement pioneered many positional structures, and the sizes of the resulting works. Abstract Expressionism is also known as the New York School, a more neutral label many art historians prefer.
Frank O’HaraIt is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yesit is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthamptonat 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
and I don't know the people who will feed me I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun
and have a hamburger and a malted and buyan ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets
in Ghana are doing these daysin Ghana are doing these days I go on to the bankand Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard)doesn't even look up my balance for once in her lifeand in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlainefor Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore orBrendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Nègres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaineafter practically going to sleep with quandariness
and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANELiquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and
then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenueand the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and
casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a cartonof Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it
and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking ofleaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
while she whispered a song along the keyboardto Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing.
Mark Rothko, No. 17/No. 15 [Multiform],1949, National Gallery of Art,
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.43.142
Artist: Lee KrasnerTitle: The SeasonsMedium: Oil on canvasSize: 7'8¾" X 16'11¾" (2.36 X 5.18 m)Date: 1957Source/Museum: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchased with funds from Frances and Sydney Lewis (by exchange), the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund, and the Painting and Sculpture Committee (87.7)
Artist: Jean-Paul RiopelleTitle: Knight WatchMedium: Oil on canvasSize: 38 X 76⅝" (96.6 X 194.8 cm)Date: 1953Source/Museum: The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Artist: Helen FrankenthalerTitle: Mountains and SeaMedium: Oil and charcoal on canvasSize: 7'2¾" X 9'8¼" (2.2 X 2.95 m)Date: 1952Source/Museum: Collection of the artist on extended loan to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
