Josef Istler (1919-2000) — Chexbres [mixed media; oil, glass, stone, canvas, 1964]

Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011) • Blue Dance • 1963

Emilio Scanavino, "Nascosto è sempre chi nasce e chi muore", 1956

Brice Marden

Elements (Hydra)

1999-2001

Exposition Art Blog Sam Gilliam - American Contemporary Art

"Sam Gilliam is one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. Suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed. As an African-American artist in the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this was not merely an aesthetic proposition; it was a way of defining art’s role in a society undergoing dramatic change. Gilliam has subsequently pursued a pioneering course in which experimentation has been the only constant. Inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, his lyrical abstractions continue to take on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials."

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Pierre Alechinsky, Arrondissement no.7, 1983.

Hans Hartung - Black Crescent on Yellow Background (1956)

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Matthew Marx - Chlamys, 2022. Ink on paper, 16 x 11 cm.

"The Blue Phantom" by Wols (Wolfgang Schulz). 1951.

Alekos Kontopoulos (1904-1975) The Moon Boat [oil, canvas, 1960]

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Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011)

A visitor looks at Helen Frankenthaler's Off White Square (1973) at a gallery in Southampton, N.Y.

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Helen Frankenthaler in her East Eighty-third Street studio working on Rapunzel, New York, April 1974

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Mountains and Sea • 1952 • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Brice Marden, Grove Group II, 1972-73

I've been longing for Daisies to push through the floor And I wish plant life would grow all around me So I won't feel dead anymore

Exposition Art Blog Sam Gilliam - American Contemporary Art

"Sam Gilliam is one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. Suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings of exhibition spaces, Gilliam transformed his medium and the contexts in which it was viewed. As an African-American artist in the nation’s capital at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this was not merely an aesthetic proposition; it was a way of defining art’s role in a society undergoing dramatic change. Gilliam has subsequently pursued a pioneering course in which experimentation has been the only constant. Inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, his lyrical abstractions continue to take on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials."

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