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unusual facts about abstract expressionists



Pat Lipsky

Lipsky has also discussed the influence of first-generation abstract expressionists like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, along with second-generation painters like Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, as well as her mentor, Tony Smith.


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Arthur Tashko

As a cubist painter he exposed his art works in Vienna, Austria together with Picasso, Leger, Delaunay, Jean Arp and after a period he met with abstract expressionists Pollock, Kooning, Rothko.

Gibson Byrd

Early influences on Byrd included the abstract expressionists and modernists Lyonel Feininger, Willem de Kooning, John Marin, and Mark Rothko, as well as the realist Edward Hopper.

Jack Tworkov

During the Depression Era, Tworkov met Willem de Kooning, among others, and together with a group of abstract expressionists including Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, founded the New York School.

Peter Saul

Art critic John Yau wrote of Saul's work in The Brooklyn Rail:

His orchestration of the intertwining, overlapping, cartoony figures could only have been done by someone who absorbed the all-over compositions of the Abstract Expressionists.