Contextual Session #8

Abstract expressionism is the term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and 1950s, often characterized by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.

Here is a list of Abstract Expression artists:
Hans Hofmann  | 1880-1966  | German/American Painter |  |  
Mark Tobey  | 1890-1976  | American Painter |  |  
Alma Thomas  | 1891-1978  | African-American Painter |  |  
Louise Nevelson  | 1899-1988  | Russian/American Sculptor |  |  
Jack Tworkov  | 1900-1982  | Polish/American Painter |  |  
Adja Yunkers  | 1900-1983  | Latvian/American Painter |  |  
Mary Callery  | 1903-1977  | American Sculptor |  |  
Adolph Gottlieb  | 1903-1974  | American Painter |  |  
Alfred Jensen  | 1903-1981  | Guatemalan/American Painter |  |  
Seymour Lipton  | 1903-1986  | American Sculptor |  |  
Mark Rothko  | 1903-1970  | Latvian/American Painter |  |  
Aaron Siskind  | 1903-1991  | American Photographer |  |  
Esteban Vicente  | 1903-2001  | Spanish/American Painter |  |  
Willem de Kooning  | 1904-1997  | Dutch/American Painter |  |  
Jose de Rivera  | 1904-1985  | American Sculptor |  |  
Arshile Gorky  | 1904-1948  | Armenian/American Painter |  |  
Balcomb Greene  | 1904-1990  | American Painter |  |  
Gertrude Greene  | 1904-1956  | American Painter |  |  
Isamu Noguchi  | 1904-1988  | Japanese/American Sculptor |  |  
Clyfford Still  | 1904-1980  | American Painter |  |  
John Ferren  | 1905-1970  | American Painter |  |  
Barnett Newman  | 1905-1970  | American Painter |  |  
James Brooks  | 1906-1992  | American Painter |  |  
Herbert Ferber  | 1906-1991  | American Sculptor |  |  
David Smith  | 1906-1965  | American Sculptor |  |  
Albert Kotin  | 1907-1980  | Russian/American Painter |  |  
Perle Fine  | 1908-1988  | American Painter |  |  
Lee Krasner  | 1908-1984  | American Painter |  |  
George McNeil  | 1908-1995  | American Painter |  |  
Jack Bush  | 1909-1977  | Canadian Painter |  |  
Enrico Donati  | 1909-2008  | American Painter |  |  
Norman Lewis  | 1909-1979  | African-American Painter |  |  
Morris Graves  | 1910-2001  | American Painter/Sculptor |  |  
Franz Kline  | 1910-1962  | American Painter |  |  
Louise Bourgeois  | 1911-2010  | French/American Sculptor |  |  
William Baziotes  | 1912-1963  | American Painter |  |  
Morris Louis  | 1912-1962  | American Painter |  |  
Roberto Matta  | 1912-2002  | Chilean/French Painter |  |  
Jackson Pollock  | 1912-1956  | American Painter |  |  
Lawrence Calcagno  | 1913-1993  | American Painter |  |  
Philip Guston  | 1913-1980  | Canadian/American Painter |  |  
Ibram Lassaw  | 1913-2003  | American Sculptor |  |  
Conrad Marca-Relli  | 1913-2000  | American Painter |  |  
Ad Reinhardt  | 1913-1967  | American Painter |  |  
William Scott  | 1913-1989  | British Painter |  |  
Alberto Burri  | 1915-1995  | Italian Painter |  |  
Edward Dugmore  | 1915-1996  | American Painter |  |  
Robert Motherwell  | 1915-1991  | American Painter |  |  
Elmer Bischoff  | 1916-1991  | American Painter |  |  
Alfonso Ossorio  | 1916-1990  | Filipino/American Painter |  |  
Richard Pousette-Dart  | 1916-1992  | American Painter |  |  
Nicolas Carone  | 1917-2010  | American Painter/Sculptor |  |  
Stephen Greene  | 1917-1999  | American Painter |  |  
David Hare  | 1917-1992  | American Sculptor |  |  
Milton Resnick  | 1917-2004  | Russian/American Painter |  |  
Elaine Fried de Kooning  | 1918-1989  | American Painter |  |  
Cleve Gray  | 1918-2004  | American Painter |  |  
Edward Corbett  | 1919-1971  | American Painter |  |  
Lester Johnson  | 1919-2010  | American Painter |  |  
George Morrison  | 1919-2000  | Native American Painter/Sculptor |  |  
Gene Davis  | 1920-1985  | American Painter |  |  
Karel Appel  | 1921-2006  | Dutch Painter |  |  
Norman Bluhm  | 1921-1999  | American Painter |  |  
Nell Blaine  | 1922-1996  | American Painter |  |  
Robert de Niro Sr.  | 1922-1993  | American Painter |  |  
Grace Hartigan  | 1922-2008  | American Painter |  |  
Jules Olitski  | 1922-2007  | Ukrainian/American Painter |  |  
Theodoros Stamos  | 1922-1997  | American Painter |  |  
Sam Francis  | 1923-1994  | American Painter |  |  
Paul Jenkins  | 1923-2012  | American Painter |  |  
Jean Paul Riopelle  | 1923-2002  | Canadian Painter |  |  
Richard Stankiewicz  | 1923-1983  | American Assemblage Artist |  |  
Antoni Tapies  | 1923-2012  | Spanish Painter |  |  
Kenneth Noland  | 1924-2010  | American Painter |  |  
Joan Mitchell  | 1926-1992  | American Painter |  |  
Helen Frankenthaler  | 1928-2011  | American Painter |  |  
Al Held  | 1928-2005  | American Painter |  |  
Rita Letendre  | Born 1928  | Native Canadian Painter |  |  
Cy Twombly  | 1928-2011  | American Painter |  |  
Jasper Johns  | Born 1930  | American Painter/Sculptor |  |  
Raphael Collazo  | 1943-1990  | American Painter |  |  
Joseph Marioni  | Born 1943  | American Painter |  |
Now to share our research for the different contextual subjects we post in padlet and then we condense the research into our blogs

http://padlet.com/nncartanddesign/fyhnpcg0z5yu - 1950s Abstract Expressionism


http://padlet.com/nncartanddesign/13extlikik5m - Design 1950s