Chapter 29

What is formalism? What is the focus of the New York School? What is action painting?What are the two kinds of abstract expressionism? Why did New York City become the center for Modern Art? Who is Clement Greenberg?What impact does Clement Greenburg have on art?

29.1 Hans Hofmann, The Gate , 1959–60

29.2 Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square , 1968

29.3 Arshile Gorky, The Artist and His Mother , c. 1926–36

29.4 Arshile Gorky, Garden in Sochi , c. 1934

Jackson Pollock

Pollock’s early work under Thomas Hart Benton and the Regionalist painters

Untitled 1940

29.5a Hans Namuth photo, Jackson Pollock , 1950

29.6a Michael Heron, Navajo Crafts , creating a sand painting

29.6b Yei god, Navajo sand painting

Navajo Sand Painting- (Southwest United States

29.7 Jackson Pollock, White Light , 1954

29.8 Franz Kline, Mahoning , 1956

29.9 Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle , 1952–53

29.10 Mark Rothko, Number 15 , 1957

29.11 Helen Frankenthaler , The Bay , 1963

29.12 Frank Stella, Tahkt-i-Sulayman I , 1967

29.13 Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum III , 1967

29.15 Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park No. 129 , 1984

29.16 Isamu Noguchi, Kouros , 1944–45.

29.17 David Smith, Cubi XVIII, Cubi XVII, and Cubi XIX , 1963–64

29.18 Louise Nevelson, Black Wall , 1959