Abstract Expressionism
Impressionism was called “The New Painting” and just what did the nineteenth-century artistic world mean by that? The painting includes a river (the St. Lawrence), a dock with a building, horses, people, a ferry crossing the river coming to the dock, a headland with boats and buildings in the distance. Large wet snowflakes fall from the overcast sky. Smoke spirals from the ferry. The picture is an impression rather than a realistic representation of a scene. Goodrich, John. Meandering through Time” (The Museum of Modern Art exhibition review). New York Sun, 29 November 2007: 17, 26. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ. Princeton Alumni Collections: Works on Paper. 26 April – 21 June 1981. Catalogue with text by Allen Rosenbaum. Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous artists of the 1900s, is best-known for co-founding cubism with Georges Braque. This still life incorporates the cubist aim of representing the world … Read the rest
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