Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Abstract Expressionists

I love postage stamps; they are like little works of art. The USPS has issued an edition of actual art: Abstract Expressionists. This 20st century art movement included the artists:
Hans Hofmann (1810-1966)
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974)
Jean Mitchell (1925-1992)
Clyfford Still (1904-1980)
Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
I have been accused of being an Abstract Expressionist, but this movement was driven by emotion. "The function of the artist is to express reality as felt." Robert Motherwell
My work is strictly an arrangement of shape, line, and color; what is pleasing to the eye not what is felt in the soul.

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