MICHAEL WEST: PAINTINGS FROM THE FORTIES TO THE EIGHTIES ART RESOURCE GROUP Newport Beach June 5 – September 25, 2010 The Fifties. According to Gore Vidal, the worst decade in the history of the world—unless, of course, you happened to be white, male,...
ART AS EVENT Compared to the brief flash of the Happenings in New York City, in Europe, Performance Art was a far more important part of the post war experience for artists in Germany and France. Many of the European artists re-connected with the old Dada spirit,...
THE HAPPENINGS: AN INTERACTION OF ART AND LIFE The so-called “drip” paintings of Jackson Pollock may have “broken the ice,” as Willem de Kooning put it, and put American art on the map, but the most lasting legacy of the artist was not his...
EVENTS FOR ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, 1945-1955 In 1946, former British prime minister, Winston Churchill made his famous “Iron Curtain” speech in March at Fulton, Missouri. According to Churchill, who had always been suspicious of Stalin, traditional fascism verses...
How Abstract Expressionism Re-Defined Painting and Art: Abstract Expressionism and Meaning The Abstract Expressionist artists translated “meaning” from subject matter to the broader and deeper intent of the word. For these artists, “meaning”...