Abstract Expressionism at The Museum of Modern Art indigenous the Up for Anything Friend

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Toronto & the Idea of North

before moving onward to showcase leading contemporary artists

This collection of paintings aspires to have viewers take a more imaginative look as they mingle the majestic industrial complexes with resplendent colors and lively organic forms

Rachel Cary George

Abstract Expressionism at The Museum of Modern Art indigenous the Up for Anything FriendHardcover 9. 25 x 10. 75 in 124 pages 120 color 9780870707933 More than 60 years have passed since Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term "Abstract Expressionism" to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. The name stuck, and over the years it has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as different from one another as Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko,