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Flashcards in The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 160 - 161 Deck (5)
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Willem De Kooning

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  • 1904-97
  • Old Master of Abstract Expressionism
  • worked in realistic style until 1948, when he developed his mature style of slashing brushstrokes
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Franz Kline

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  • 1910-62

- converted to abstraction after viewing his normal-sized sketches blown up on a wall with a slide projector

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Hans Hofmann

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  • 1880-1966

- early advocate of freely splashed pigment

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Clyfford Still

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  • 1904-80

- pioneer of nearly monochromatic painting

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Robert Motherwell

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  • 1915-91

- took up abstract painting inspired by European Modernism

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