Abstract Expressionism Art Posters

Featured Abstract Expressionism Fine Artists

Jackson Pollock was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming, and died in 1956. Raised in Arizona and California, he moved to New York in 1930, where he studied art under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Student League. From 1935 through 1942, he worked as an artist for the WPA. He had his first one-man show, in New York, in 1943. He began painting in the style for which he is best known, Action Painting (or "drip painting") in 1947. [More...]

Mark Rothko was born as Marcus Rothkowitz in 1903 to a Jewish family in Daugavpils, Latvia, in what was then part of the Russian Empire. In 1913, his family emigrated to Portland, Oregon, to escape anti-semitism and to avoid having Mark and his brothers drafted into the Czarist army during World War I. He studied art at the New School of Design and the Art Students League in New York City, with Arshile Gorky and Max Weber, both also Russian Jews, among his teachers. He is generally included among the Abstract Expressionists, although he is more closely related to "color field" painters such as Morris Louis, Barnett Newman, and Kenneth Noland. [More...]

Franz Kline was born in 1910 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and died in 1962. He studied art at Boston University in 1931-35 and Heatherly's School in London, England, in 1937-8. Moving to New York in 1939, he initially painted in the style of the Ashcan School, best typified by John Sloan. In the 1940s, he turned to Abstract painting, at first in a Cubist style. It wasn't until the 1950s that he began doing the large "caligraphic" black and white action paintings for which he became best known. [More...]