Thesis presentation for Bonnie Brown, University of Michigan

1. Untitled (A Talk)
Bonnie Brown

2. Art Institute of Chicago
Modern Wing

4. Beach Scene

6. David Smith
Beach Scene
1949, steel

7. Willem De Kooning
Excavation
1950, oil on canvas

8. Excavation (Details)

9. Georges Braque
Harbor in Normandy
1909, oil on canvas

11. Jackson Pollock
Untitled
1943, oil on canvas

12. Untitled (Details)

15. Action Painting
Color Field Painting

16. Jackson Pollock
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
1950, enamel on canvas
Jackson Pollock
Full Fathom Five
1947, oil on canvas

17. Hans Hofmann
Spring
1944-45, oil on wood
“….what some people call the spatter-and-daub school and I, more
politely, have christened abstract Expressionism.”
- Robert Coates, 1946

18. Jackson Pollock Gestural Painting
LIFE Magazine

19. “My work is not influenced by anybody.”
-- Clyfford Still
“Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a
certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it,
he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.”
-- Willem De Kooning

20. Clyfford Still
PH-118
1947, oil on canvas

21. Mark Rothko
No. 61 (Rust and Blue)
1951, oil on canvas

22. "Full fathom five thy father lies/
Of his bones are coral made/
Those are pearls that were his eyes.“
--The Tempest
Jackson Pollock
Full Fathom Five
1947, oil on canvas

23. Jackson Pollock
Greyed Rainbow
1953, oil on linen

24. Excavation
Willem De Kooning