1. ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM

2. Clement Greenberg

3. “All profoundly
original art
looks ugly at
first”
Clement Greenberg

4. “ACTION PAINTING”

5. Arshile Gorky

6. “Art must always
remain earnest... Art
must be serious, no
sarcasm, comedy. One
does not laugh at a
loved one.”
Arshile Gorky

7. Arshile Gorky
The Liver is the Cock’s Comb

8. Willem DeKooning

9. Willem DeKooning

10. Willem DeKooning

11. Jackson Pollock

12. New needs need new
techniques. And the
modern artists have found
new ways and new means
of making their
statements... the modern
painter cannot express this
age, the airplane, the atom
bomb, the radio, in the old
forms of the Renaissance or
of any other past culture.
Jackson Pollock

13. “I am
nature."
Jackson Pollock

14. Jackson Pollock
She-Wolf

16. Jackson Pollock
Mural

17. Jackson Pollock
Mural

21. Lee Krasner

22. Lee Krasner

23. Robert Motherwell

24. Robert Motherwell

25. Franz Kline
Mahoning, 1956

26. Philip Guston

27. Philip Guston

28. Elaine DeKooning
Harold Rosenberg

29. Elaine DeKooning
Bull

30. “COLOR FIELD”

31. Clyfford Still

32. Mark Rothko

33. “If our titles recall the
known myths of antiquity,
we have used them again
because they are the
eternal symbols upon which
we must fall back to express
basic psychological ideas.”
Mark Rothko

34. Mark Rothko
No 1

35. Mark Rothko

36. Mark Rothko

37. Mark Rothko

38. Mark Rothko

39. Mark Rothko

40. Mark Rothko

42. Barnett Newman

43. Barnett Newman

44. Barnett Newman

45. Ad Reinhardt

46. Ad Reinhardt

47. Ad Reinhardt

48. David Smith
Pillar of Sunday

49. David Smith

50. Mark Di Suvero

51. Mark Di Suvero

52. John Chamberlain

53. John Chamberlain

54. John Chamberlain

55. “Shadow boxes become
poetic theaters or
settings wherein are
metamorphosed the
element of a childhood
pastime.”

56. Joseph Cornell