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American Figurative Expressionism — a 20th-century American art movement. Pages in category "American Figurative Expressionism" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
The Boston origins of the American movement date to a "wave of German and European-Jewish immigrants" in the 1930s and their "affinities to the contemporary German strain of figurative painting ... in artists like Otto Dix (1891–1969), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), and Emil Nolde (1867–1956), both in style and in subject matter," art historian Adam ...
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Vir Heroicus Sublimis is a 1951 painting by Barnett Newman, [1] an American painter who was a key part of the abstract expressionist movement. Vir Heroicus Sublimis—"Man, Heroic and Sublime" in Latin—attempts to evoke a reaction from its viewers through its overwhelming scale (his largest canvas yet at the time he released it) and saturated color.
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
Betty Parsons (born Betty Bierne Pierson, January 31, 1900 – July 23, 1982) [4] was an American artist, art dealer, and collector known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. [5] She is regarded as one of the most influential and dynamic figures of the American avant-garde.
Jane Wilson (1924–2015) was an American painter associated with both landscape painting and expressionism. She lived and worked in New York City and Water Mill, New York . Wilson's painting American Horizon, was on display at the 2025 Inaugural Luncheon [ 1 ]
Ulysses (1952), a blue-and-black striped painting, sold in 1985 for $1,595,000 at Sotheby's to an American collector who was not identified. [19] Consigned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and previously part of Frederick R. Weisman's collection , Newman's 8.5-by-10-foot Onement VI (1953) was sold for a record $43.8 million at Sotheby's New ...