What is Abstract Modern Art? It is art from the twentieth century that does not depict objects, people or other things known in the natural world.
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Abstract Art
A glossary definition.
Nonobjective Art
A glossary definition.
Abstract Expressionism
An art movement - Art History 101 Basics.
Abstract Expressionist New York
© 2010 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
An art gallery containing images from the 2010-11 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gestural Art
A glossary definition.
Action Painting
An art movement - Art History 101 Basics.
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976
© 2008 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
An art gallery containing images from the 2008-09 traveling exhibition.
Critical Mass: Homage to Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg
An art exhibition review.
Color-Field Painting
An art movement - Art History 101 Basics.
Post Painterly Abstraction
An art movement - Art History 101 Basics.