"My opinion is that new needs need new
techniques…the modern painter cannot
express his age, the airplane, the atom
bomb, the radio in the old forms of the
Renaissance… the modern artist is living
in a mechanical age…working and
expressing an inner world- in other words,
expressing the energy, the motion, and
other inner forces."
- Jackson Pollock
Chapter 27
Abstract
Expressionism
Hans Hofmann, The Gate, 1959-1960.
Oil on canvas, 6' 3 1/8" x 4' 1/2"
Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the
Square, 1968. Oil on masonite, 32" x 32”
Jackson Pollock, White
Light. 1954. Oil, enamel,
and aluminum paint on
canvas, 48 1/4" x 38 1/4”
Jackson Pollock,
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
Oil on canvas; 8'9" X 17'3"
Jackson Pollock, Number 7. 1950. Oil,
enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas
Franz Kline, Mahoning, 1956. Oil and paper collage on canvas, 6' 8" x 8' 4"
Franz Kline, Palladio, 1961. Oil on canvas
Woman, I, 1950-52
Oil on canvas, 6' 3 7/8" x 58"
Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle,
1952-1953. Oil on canvas, 76 1/2" x 49"
Mark Rothko, Number 15, 1957. Oil on canvas, 103" x 116 1/2"
Mark Rothko,
Untitled, 1953. Oil
on canvas, 83" x 68"
No. 10, 1950
Oil on canvas, 90” x 57”
Untitled, 1967
Oil on canvas, 81” x 76”
David Smith, Cubi XXVII, 1965
Welded steel, 111” x 87” x 34”
Louise Nevelson, Black Wall, 1959.
Wood, painted black, 9' 4" x 7' 1 1/4"
Royal Tide, 1960,
gilded wood construction, 88” x 41”