New York School

The New York School was a group of American painters and poets in New York, which crystallized since the early 1940s. As important artists of the first generation of Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock apply. 1946 coined the New York art critic Robert Coates the term Abstract Expressionism.

History

The opening of Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century in October 1942 was considered by the New York artists as a sensation. The first, appointed by the architect Frederick Kiesler show featured among other works by Kandinsky, Miró, Klee, Arp and Masson. The free, to be solved by the Cubist models and geometric abstractions imagery of the Europeans and the bimorph vocabulary Arps made ​​especially to Gorky made ​​a strong impression, but also let Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still not affected.

A group around the painter Ad Reinhardt and the art critic Clement Greenberg in 1950 attracted attention by these artists refused to participate in an exhibition of contemporary American art at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The action of the irate was designated as a protest against the policies of the museum and should represent the abstract expressionist painting as a genuine American art, as avant-garde revolt of an ongoing awakening.

Success

In subsequent years, the hallmark New York School was so successful that shows in New York artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg as " Artists of the New York School, Second Generation " introduced in the exhibition industry. Johns and Rauschenberg are now classified as a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. The Pop Art in turn is often cited in art historical representations as a reaction against the bookish tendencies of Abstract Expressionism.

Among the visual artists of the New York School are now counted among other things: Louise Bourgeois, Joe Brainard, Marisol Escobar, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Franz Kline, Elaine de Kooning, Seymour Lipton, Conrad Marca - Relli, Joan Mitchell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, Mark Rothko and David Smith.

Among the poets of the New York School include: John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Kenward Elmslie, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett and James Schuyler.

Among the composers who were either directly or indirectly influenced by the painters and poets of the New York School, include: Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor, and Christian Wolff ( composer ).

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