The document discusses abstract expressionist artists like Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell. It provides biographical information on Pollock, Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, and David Hare. It also shares several quotes by Pollock about his abstract painting process and philosophy, including that he works from within rather than outside subject matter, and that technique is just a means of arriving at a statement for him.

1. Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of
themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source.
They work from within.

2. Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

3. The strangeness will wear off and I think we will
discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

8. The painting has a
life of its own. I try
to let it come
through.
Full Fathom Five

9. The Uptown Group
Robert Motherwell Painter and Printer.
January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991
In 1944 he had his first one-man show at Peggy Guggenheim’s “Art of This Century”
gallery
Ad Reinhardt
December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967
Part of the movement centered around the Betty Parsons Gallery that became
known as Abstract Expressionism. Lectured and wrote extensively.Claimed to be
painting the "last paintings" that anyone can paint
David Hare
March 10, 1917 – December 21, 1992
Primarily a sculpture but extensive work in photography and painting using his
chemistry background. Set up a Surealist magazine. Exhibited his work as solo
shows in a number of prestigious venues, including Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of
This Century gallery
Jackson Pollack

10. Navahoe Sand Painting
Design

12. I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the
time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures
are bound to emerge

13. My painting does
not come from the
easel.

14. It doesn't make
much difference
how the paint is
put on as long as
something has
been said.
Technique is
just a means of
arriving at a
statement.
Male Female

15. Alajandra du Solier

16. Sequerios

18. THEODOROS
STAMOS
(1922–1997)
Fountain
Gouache

19. Pussette Dart

21. American art collector, bohemian and
socialite. Born to a wealthy New York City
family, she was the daughter of Benjamin
Guggenheim, who went down with the
Titanic in 1912, and the niece of Solomon
R. Guggenheim, who would establish the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Peggy Guggenheim created a noted art
collection in Europe and America
primarily between 1938 and 1946. She
exhibited this collection as she built it
and, in 1949, settled in Venice, where
she lived and exhibited her collection for
the rest of her life.

22. Guggenheim New York

24. Pollock-Krasner House and Studio, at 830 Springs
Fireplace Road, in Springs on Long Island, NY.

26. It is only when I lose contact with the
painting that the result is a mess.
Otherwise there is pure harmony, an
easy give and take, and the painting
comes out well.

28. I continue to get further away from the usual

29. Day Trip
Every good painter
paints what he is.

30. I don't work from
drawings. I don't
make sketches and
drawings and color
sketches into a
final painting.

31. I hardly ever stretch the canvas
before painting

32. Autumn Rythm
Every good painter paints what he is.

33. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy
impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

34. Lavender mist
My paintings do not have a center, but
depend on the same amount of interest
throughout.

35. Moby Dick

36. 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.
Moon Woman

37. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there
is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

38. Pasiphae
When I am in my painting, I'm not
aware of what I'm doing.

39. When I am painting I
have a general notion
as to what I am about. I
can control the flow of
paint: there is no
accident

40. Shewolf
It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've
no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

41. Stenographic
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the
earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a
big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some
choose a pen

42. The modern artist...
is working and
expressing an inner
world - in other
words - expressing
the energy, the
motion, and other
inner forces.
Untitled 1950