Born in post-war New York, Abstract Expressionism was a watershed moment in the evolution of 20th-century art which redefined the nature of painting. Yet, remarkably, there has been no major survey of ...

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

The Abstract Expressionists have gone down in art history as a macho band of hard-drinking, paint-flinging American heroes, channelling their angst into monumental masterpieces of abstraction. The US ...

Incredible though it may seem, this Royal Academy show is Britain’s first major overview of abstract expressionism since Tate’s The New American Painting in 1959, and there’s been a lot of water under ...

João Florêncio receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is affiliated with the Labour Party. A new exhibition, Abstract Expressionism, opens at London’s Royal Academy this ...

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