The Ukrainian-born, American self-taught artist is now increasingly recognized as foundational to the development of Abstract Expressionism, particularly for her early use of drip and poured paint ...
Hartigan was one of the most recognized artists in the early days of Abstract Expressionism... Abstract Expressionism didn’t just spring into being; it evolved from a search within.
It glows, pulses, seduces ... Her path to abstract expressionism was never academic ... Her work lives at the intersection of surrealism and abstract expressionism, with a distinctly feminine command of color that recalls the audacity of Fauvism ... ....
Photo... There hasn’t really been a compelling exhibition that revisits Expressionism in a serious way,” Jarvis notes ... “Our interest spans German Expressionism, the neo-expressionism of the 1980s—particularly as that term was used differently in the U.S.
Long overshadowed by her male contemporaries, Münter is now recognized as a decisive force in forging a distinctly modern visual language that bridged GermanExpressionism and later abstraction.