The Shock of the NewA beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Page 154
... Pollock's “ all - over " paintings from 1949. In them , line was no longer outline . It did not mark contours or define edges ; it was not touchable , like the cut line along the edge of a Matisse pomegranate ; it was almost a function ...
... Pollock's “ all - over " paintings from 1949. In them , line was no longer outline . It did not mark contours or define edges ; it was not touchable , like the cut line along the edge of a Matisse pomegranate ; it was almost a function ...
Page 259
... Pollock , Arshile Gorky , Mark Rothko , Clyfford Still , Robert Motherwell , and William Baziotes . One can perhaps exaggerate the effect that the arrival of living European " masters " in their midst had on them , but it did have one ...
... Pollock , Arshile Gorky , Mark Rothko , Clyfford Still , Robert Motherwell , and William Baziotes . One can perhaps exaggerate the effect that the arrival of living European " masters " in their midst had on them , but it did have one ...
Page 316
... Pollock made no metaphysical claims for his art . Rothko , Still , and Newman did , sometimes in an absurdly bombastic way . “ I had made it clear [ around 1946 ] , " Still wrote , " that a single stroke of paint , backed by work and a ...
... Pollock made no metaphysical claims for his art . Rothko , Still , and Newman did , sometimes in an absurdly bombastic way . “ I had made it clear [ around 1946 ] , " Still wrote , " that a single stroke of paint , backed by work and a ...
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