The 304 Artworks of media Oil On Paper and containing the word josef albers, oil on paper, abstract art, 1950

Kline arrived at Abstract Expressionism later than others, having continued working in a figural style redolent of American Scene painters into the late 1940s. By that time, he was ready to concentrate on formal concerns, and his friendship with Willem de Kooning helped pave the way. As a means to b...

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James Brooks grew up in Texas and attended Southern Methodist University from 1923 to 1925. He arrived in New York in the mid-1920s, and supported himself as a commercial artist while studying painting at the Art Students League. Brooks took up teaching, first at Columbia, and then for more extended...

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Mituso Kano is a Japanese contemporary artist born in Tokyo in 1933. While devoted to modern French poetry, including that of Rimbaud, Kano also showed an interest in forms of minerals and plants. Kano began teaching himself etching and held his first solo show at Takemiya Gallery in Tokyo on the re...

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Norman Lewis is considered the first major African American Abstract Expressionist. Lewis grew up in Harlem and was actively involved in the Black Arts Movement in New York during the mid-20th century; he was a member of the 306 Group as well as the Spiral Collective with fellow African American art...

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During the 1950s, Licini achieved the “metaphysical depiction of silence” (G. Marchiori) seen in his seascapes and night scenes. His poetic imagination was purified through renewed reflection on his abstract geometrical works of the 1930s, to the point that, when reinterpreting this period of his wo...

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