thesis presentation

Untitled (A Talk)

Bonnie Brown

Art Institute of ChicagoModern Wing

Beach Scene

David SmithBeach Scene1949, steel

Willem De KooningExcavation1950, oil on canvas

Excavation (Details)

Georges BraqueHarbor in Normandy1909, oil on canvas

Jackson PollockUntitled1943, oil on canvas

Untitled (Details)

Action Painting

Color Field Painting

Jackson PollockAutumn Rhythm (Number 30)1950, enamel on canvas Jackson Pollock

Full Fathom Five1947, oil on canvas

Hans HofmannSpring1944-45, oil on wood

“….what some people call the spatter-and-daub school and I, more politely, have christened abstract Expressionism.”- Robert Coates, 1946

Jackson Pollock Gestural PaintingLIFE Magazine

“My work is not influenced by anybody.”-- Clyfford Still

“Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it,

he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.”-- Willem De Kooning

Clyfford StillPH-1181947, oil on canvas

Mark RothkoNo. 61 (Rust and Blue)1951, oil on canvas

Jackson PollockFull Fathom Five1947, oil on canvas

"Full fathom five thy father lies/Of his bones are coral made/Those are pearls that were his eyes.“

--The Tempest

Jackson PollockGreyed Rainbow1953, oil on linen

ExcavationWillem De Kooning