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Abstract Expressionism Quotes

I was a student at Harvard, and that’s where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time Picture Quote #1

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! Picture Quote #1

But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It’s based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience Picture Quote #1

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you’ll find a would-be Willem de Kooning) Picture Quote #1

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art Picture Quote #1

I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, You’re too uptight, you’re not expressing yourself, why don’t you feel freer? I said, Well, I don’t like that stuff. It means nothing to me Picture Quote #1

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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism Picture Quote #1

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties Picture Quote #1

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I was a student at Harvard, and that’s where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time (Abstract Expressionism Quotes) The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! (Abstract Expressionism Quotes) But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It’s based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience (Abstract Expressionism Quotes) Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you’ll find a would-be Willem de Kooning) (Abstract Expressionism Quotes) We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art (Abstract Expressionism Quotes) I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, You’re too uptight, you’re not expressing yourself, why don’t you feel freer? I said, Well, I don’t like that stuff. It means nothing to me (Abstract Expressionism Quotes) I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism (Abstract Expressionism Quotes) Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties (Abstract Expressionism Quotes)