‘A child could have done that’ is modern art’s most banal criticism, but in the case of Jackson Pollock, the cynics are actually right. The US artist of the abstract expressionist movement was the ...

Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was the founder of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in art. This was the first truly American artform and its development had worldwide repercussions. Whereas up to the ...

A new show argues that the Abstract Expressionist power couple could never have made their groundbreaking works without each other’s support ...

In 1942, when Jackson Pollock was still an emerging artist, he displayed some of his work at a group exhibition in New York City. One of the other painters in the show, fellow Abstract Expressionist ...

Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet, which was organized by Klaus Ottmann and Dorothy Kosinki for The Phillips Collection, Washington DC. (February 9–May 23, 2013) and is currently ...

As a young woman at The Art Students League in Manhattan, Helen Harrison often headed to the nearby Museum of Modern Art at lunchtime, where she'd sit and ponder “One, No. 31, 1950,” the wall-sized ...

The temperature changes hour to hour and day to day; exchange rates behave no differently. Wherever studies of the variability of similar one-dimensional time series are concerned, analyses based on ...

Abstract Expressionism is one of art history’s most well-worn stories. After the Renaissance and Impressionism, maybe the most well-worn. Jackson Pollock. Willem and Elaine de Kooning. Lee Krasner.

From the May 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1949, the artist Robert Motherwell (1915–91) coined the phrase ‘New York School’. The term Abstract Expressionism seemed too narrow ...