Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum: Action/ Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art
This resource provides information about abstract expressionism, its leading practitioners (especially Pollock and de Kooning), and its place in American art during the period from 1940-76.
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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: Hofmannopoly [Pdf]
If you have access to a color printer then you can print and play Hofmannopoly! Assemble the game board according to the directions and grab a friend to play. You will be an art student traveling through the world of Hans Hofmann. Learn...
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Pbs: American Masters: Abstract Expressionism
Provides an article on Abstract Expressionism, "the dominant trend in western painting throughout the 1950s."
Other
Abstract Art: Contemporary Abstract Art
Discover Contemporary Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Illusionism, and Lyrical Abstraction through artists that paint in these styles. Biographical information and visuals of artists work.
Other
Biddington's: Abstract Expressionism
Contains a definition of Abstract Expressionism, some of the artists involved in the movement, and what they were trying to achieve.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Rothko's Legacy
Transcript of NewsHour's Paul Solman interviewing the art historian and Rothko biographer, Dore Ashton. Provides insight into the life and work of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. Interview dated August 5, 1998.
Other
Broken Toyland: The Art of Valery Milovic
Personal site of contemporary artist/illustrator Valery Milovic that also contains poetry, musings, and stories. Creative, intergrated site, developed around Milovic's thematic "Broken Toyland" universe.
Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Abstract Art for Kids
Kids learn about the Abstract Art movement and its major artist such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.
Goshen College
Bird Ritual
This opening art exercise, although intended to increase art fluency, would be a great motivation for a lesson on Brancusi's "Bird in Space."
Other
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Located in Lincoln, NE. The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden web site resources highlight its collection of American art. Find examples of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism,...
Other
Clyfford Still Museum: Collection
This page shows a few examples of works from the collection of the Clyffrod Still Museum and talks about the collection in general. Still was an important American abstract-expressionist painter who produced thousands of large format...
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Jackson Pollock
A NewsHour interview with Kirk Varnedoe, curator of painting at the Museum of Modern Art, on the life, work, and influence of Jackson Pollock. The interview revolves around Pollock's breakthrough drip paintings and is interspersed with...
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Pbs: Hans Hofmann: Artist: Teacher, Teacher: Artist
This companion website for a PBS documentary about Hans Hofmann includes all the essential information about Hofmann, whose reputation as a teacher almost eclipses his reputation as an artist. Wonderful site for exploring how artists...
PBS
Pbs: American Masters: Alexander Calder
From the PBS series, American Masters, this is the biography, a video, and related links for the American abrstract expressionist sculptor Alexander Calder.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Voices Against Conformity
The decade of the 1950s was kown for conformity. There was an undercurrent of rebellion, especially among younger Americans. Read about the Beat Generation, alternative literature, rebellion in art, and treatment of those who were not...
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Guggenheim: Vasily Kandinsky
A biography from the Guggenheim of Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944 CE).
Other
National Gallery of Art: Against the Grain the Woodcuts of Helen Frankenthaler
A collection of 43 woodcuts that echo the same expressionistic style as Frankenthaler's more well known paintings.