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Abstract expressionism
Arts organizations disestablished in 1957
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Abstract art

Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the immediate aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depression and Mexican muralists. The Club (fine arts) and Abstract expressionism are American art movements.

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Action painting

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The Club (fine arts) and Action painting are abstract expressionism.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer.

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André Breton

André Robert Breton (19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism.

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Aristodimos Kaldis

Aristodimos Kaldis (August 15, 1899 in Dikeli, Ottoman Empire – May, 1979) was an artist and left-wing activist in New York.

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Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky (born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. The Club (fine arts) and Arshile Gorky are abstract expressionist artists.

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Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist. The Club (fine arts) and Barnett Newman are abstract expressionist artists.

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Cedar Tavern

The Cedar Tavern (or Cedar Street Tavern) was a bar and restaurant at the eastern edge of Greenwich Village, New York City. The Club (fine arts) and Cedar Tavern are abstract expressionism.

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Clyfford Still

Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. The Club (fine arts) and Clyfford Still are abstract expressionist artists.

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Color field

Color field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. The Club (fine arts) and Color field are abstract expressionism and American art movements.

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Conrad Marca-Relli

Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 – August 29, 2000) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. The Club (fine arts) and Conrad Marca-Relli are abstract expressionist artists.

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Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.

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Elaine de Kooning

Elaine Marie Catherine de Kooning (née Fried; March 12, 1918 – February 1, 1989) was an Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. The Club (fine arts) and Elaine de Kooning are abstract expressionist artists.

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Expressionism

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.

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Federal Art Project

The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States.

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First Avenue (Manhattan)

First Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from Houston Street northbound to 127th Street.

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Franz Kline

Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter. The Club (fine arts) and Franz Kline are abstract expressionist artists.

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Frederick John Kiesler

Frederick Jacob Kiesler (September 22, 1890 – December 27, 1965) was an Austrian-American architect, theoretician, theater designer, artist and sculptor.

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Geometric abstraction

Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions.

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Giorgio Cavallon

Giorgio Cavallon (March 3, 1904 – December 22, 1989) was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists and a pioneer Abstract Expressionist. The Club (fine arts) and Giorgio Cavallon are abstract expressionist artists.

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Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American historian and philosopher.

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Harold Rosenberg

Harold Rosenberg (February 2, 1906 – July 11, 1978) was an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic.

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Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

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Ibram Lassaw

Ibram Lassaw (May 4, 1913 – December 30, 2003) was a Russian-American sculptor, known for non-objective construction in brazed metals. The Club (fine arts) and Ibram Lassaw are abstract expressionist artists.

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Isamu Noguchi

was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. The Club (fine arts) and Isamu Noguchi are abstract expressionist artists.

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It is. A Magazine for Abstract Art

It is. The Club (fine arts) and it is. A Magazine for Abstract Art are abstract expressionism.

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Jack Tworkov

Jack Tworkov (15 August 1900 – 4 September 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter. The Club (fine arts) and Jack Tworkov are abstract expressionist artists.

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James Brooks (painter)

James David Brooks (October 18, 1906 – March 9, 1992) was an American Abstract Expressionist, muralist, abstract painter, art teacher, and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. The Club (fine arts) and James Brooks (painter) are abstract expressionist artists.

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James Rosati

James Rosati (1911 in Washington, Pennsylvania 1911 – 1988 in New York City) was an American abstract sculptor. The Club (fine arts) and James Rosati are abstract expressionist artists.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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John Ferren

John Millard Ferren (October 17, 1905 – July 1, 1970) was an American artist and educator.

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Joop Sanders

Joop Sanders (October 6, 1921 – July 6, 2023) was a Dutch-American painter, educator, and founding member of the American Abstract Expressionist group. The Club (fine arts) and Joop Sanders are abstract expressionist artists.

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Josef Albers

Josef Albers (March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States.

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Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer.

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Leo Castelli

Leo Castelli (Krausz; September 4, 1907 – August 21, 1999) was an Italian-American art dealer who originated the contemporary art gallery system.

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Louis Menand

Louis Menand (born January 21, 1952) is an American critic, essayist, and professor who wrote the Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.

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Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures.

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Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York City, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough of New York City.

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Lyrical abstraction

Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered as a component of Tachisme when the name of this movement was coined in 1951 by Pierre Guéguen and Charles Estienne the author of L'Art à Paris 1945–1966, and American Lyrical Abstraction a movement described by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969. The Club (fine arts) and Lyrical abstraction are abstract expressionism and American art movements.

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Marcel Breuer

Marcel Lajos Breuer (21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer.

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Marcel Duchamp

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.

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Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko (IPA:, Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903February 25, 1970), was an American abstract painter. The Club (fine arts) and Mark Rothko are abstract expressionism and abstract expressionist artists.

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Mary Gabriel is the author of Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, about Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen.

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet.

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Milton Resnick

Milton Resnick (January 7, 1917 – March 12, 2004) was an American artist noted for abstract paintings that coupled scale with density of incident. The Club (fine arts) and Milton Resnick are abstract expressionist artists.

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Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer.

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New York School (art)

The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City. The Club (fine arts) and New York School (art) are abstract expressionism and American art movements.

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Nicolas Carone

Nicolas Carone (June 4, 1917 – July 15, 2010) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. The Club (fine arts) and Nicolas Carone are abstract expressionist artists.

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Nina Leen

Nina Leen (born 1914, died January 1, 1995) was an American photographer born in the Russian Empire.

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Nuagisme

Nuagisme (literally Cloudism) is a French art-critical term for an art movement that was advanced in the 1950s by French art critic Julien Alvard (1916–1974) in which young French and foreign painters participated in France.

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Philip Guston

Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. The Club (fine arts) and Philip Guston are abstract expressionist artists.

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Philip Pavia

Philip Pavia (1911-2005) was a culturally influential American artist of Italian descent, known for his scatter sculpture and figurative abstractions, and the debate he fostered among many of the 20th century's most important art thinkers. The Club (fine arts) and Philip Pavia are abstract expressionist artists.

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Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (also,; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

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Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. The Club (fine arts) and Robert Motherwell are abstract expressionist artists.

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Robert Rauschenberg

Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly in London, England.

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Sixth Avenue

Sixth Avenue, also known as Avenue of the Americas, is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown".

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Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.

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Tachisme

Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word tache, stain) is a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s. The Club (fine arts) and Tachisme are abstract expressionism.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Irascibles

The Irascibles or Irascible 18 were the labels given to a group of American abstract artists who put name to an open letter, written in 1950, to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, rejecting the museum's exhibition American Painting Today - 1950 and boycotting the accompanying competition. The Club (fine arts) and the Irascibles are abstract expressionist artists.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic.

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Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. The Club (fine arts) and Willem de Kooning are abstract expressionist artists.

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Yves Tanguy

Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter.

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8th Street and St. Mark's Place

8th Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from Sixth Avenue to Third Avenue, and also from Avenue B to Avenue D; its addresses switch from West to East as it crosses Fifth Avenue.

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9th Street Art Exhibition

The 9th Street Art Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture is the official title artist Franz Kline hand-lettered onto the poster he designed for the Ninth Street Show (May 21-June 10, 1951). The Club (fine arts) and 9th Street Art Exhibition are abstract expressionism.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Club_(fine_arts)

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Abstract expressionism

Arts organizations disestablished in 1957

Arts organizations established in 1949

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