The lecture discussed abstract expressionist and post-painterly abstractionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Clyfford Still, Hans Hofmann, Cy Twombly, Morris Louis, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, David Smith, Barnett Newman, John Chamberlain, and Mark DiSuvero. Key works mentioned include Pollock's Guardians of the Secret, Mural, and One: Number 31, de Kooning's Painting and Woman I, Kline's New York, New York, Gorky's The Liver is the