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Realism → Surrealism → Abstract Expressionism → Pop Art
A chronological account of the lives of the first generation Abstract Expressionists
including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman,
Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky and
Adolph Gottlieb, with a little help from their friends/enemies André Breton and Matta.
Click on a year:
1800 - 1899
The Art Students League
1900 - 1909
The Eight
1910 - 1919
The Armory Show
1920 - 1924
Société Anonyme
1925 - 1927
The Artist and His Mother
1928 - 1929
Crash
1930
The Jumble Shop and Romany Marie's
1931
Newer Super-Realism
1932
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1933
Dachau
1934
The Artists' Union
1935
WPA
1936
Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism
1937
Master Bill
1938
Whitney Dissenters
1939
The Surrealist Invasion Begins
1940
Paris Falls
1941
World War II and Myths
1942
Isolationist Art vs. The New Internationalism
1943
Search for a Symbol
1944
Paris est libéré
1945 (a)
A Problem for Critics
1945 (b)
The Liver Is the Cock's Comb
1946
Existentialism
1947
Drips
1948 (a)
Zips
1948 (b)
Gorky
1949
The Club
1950
Woman I
1951
The Ninth Street Show
1952
Black Mountain
1953
Benders
1954
The Red House
1955
In Denial
1956
Pollock
1957
Americans in Action
1958
The Seagram Murals
1959
Four Seasons
1960
Nowhere
1961
Why Willem de Kooning punched Clement Greenberg
1962
The Harvard Murals
1963
Toward a New Abstraction
1964
The Rothko Chapel
1965
Scull Sells
1966
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?
1967
Broken Obelisk
1968
Aneurysm
1969
A Separation and a Party
1970 - 1974
Rothko
1975 - 1979
The Same Letter Seven Times
1980s+
De Kooning
Abstract Expressionism | Contents | 1800-1899 | | 1900-1909 | 1910-1919 | 1920-1924 | 1925-1927 | 1928-1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 (a) | 1945 (b) | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 (a) | 1948 (b) | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970-1974 | 1975-1979 | 1980+ | Contact | Sources | Search | Warholstars