American Abstract Artists 20th century
Josef Albers was a German-born artist and educator. The first living artist to be given a solo shows at MoMA and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, headed Yale University's department of design, and is considered one of the most influential teachers of the visual arts in the twentieth century.
As an artist, Albers worked in several disciplines, including photography, typography, murals and printmaking. He is best known for his work as an abstract painter and a theorist. His book Interaction of Color was published in 1963.
Ilia Bolotovskii (russian: Илья Юльевич Болотовский) was a Russian-born American abstractionist painter.
After spending his youth in Baku, he moved to the United States in 1923, later becoming an American citizen. Bolotovskii received his artistic education at the National Academy of Drawing in New York and while traveling in Europe. Influenced by the work of P. Mondrian began to create objectless paintings and later remained an adherent of abstractionism, was a member of the abstract-expressionist group "Ten".
In 1936 Bolotovskii created one of the first abstract monumental murals in the United States in the Williamsburg housing project in New York. That same year he co-founded the American Abstract Artists organization. In the 1960s, Bolotovskii worked in the spirit of geometric abstractionism and neo-plasticism and created canvases with images in three dimensions.
Blanche Lazzell is an American graphic artist and designer. She became known for her works in the modernist style, especially in printmaking and woodcarving and white prints. Leisel began her artistic career in New York City, where she studied at the Art Students League and Art Students League.
In 1905, she continued her studies at the Académie Julien in Paris and studied printmaking under printmaker Paul Emile Beck. In 1912 Leisel returned to the United States and moved to Connecticut, where she became a member of the famous Stonington Art Colony. There she began experimenting with woodcarving and created a series of works called Woodblock Prints, which brought her great popularity. Leisel was one of the first artists to use the technique of card engraving (a technique in which the studio uses a card knife to carve an image onto a printed plate).
She also used many other techniques, including cast metal, wood engraving and linocut. The artist has received numerous awards and honors, including membership in the Academy of Folk Art Design, as well as fellowships and awards from national art organizations. Her work is in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.
George Lovett Kingsland Morris is an American artist and designer best known for his work in the style of abstract expressionism.
Morris began his career as a cartoonist and illustrator for magazines and advertising agencies, but later moved on to painting and abstract painting in particular. In the 1930s he was one of the founders of the Abstract Art League, which promoted abstract expressionism in the United States. In the 1940s Morris was a major contributor to the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York.
Many of Morris's works, including his paintings, drawings, and graphics, are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum, and the New York Public Library.
Maurice Brazil Prendergast was an American post-Impressionist painter known for the vibrant and saturated colors he used in his work, mostly in the genre of landscape and urban life. In 1886 Prendergast moved to Paris, where he studied at the École Julien under the tutelage of the masters of Impressionism, including Paul Cézanne, who had a great influence on Prendergast's style.
After his return to the United States in 1891, Prendergast became a popularizer of Impressionism in the United States. His work became brighter and more saturated in color than other American artists of the time, and he began to use a dotted style similar to the technique of divisionism. His paintings became similar to tapestries or mosaics.
Prendergast became a member of a group of artists known as the Founders of American Art, who advocated the use of bright and saturated colors instead of the muted and earthy tones adopted in traditional American art. Prendergast left behind a legacy that laid the foundation for the development of Post-Impressionism and Modernism in American art.
Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt was an abstract painter active in New York for more than three decades. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism. He was also a member of The Club, the meeting place for the New York School abstract expressionist artists during the 1940s and 1950s. He wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art and monochrome painting. Most famous for his "black" or "ultimate" paintings, he claimed to be painting the "last paintings" that anyone can paint. He believed in a philosophy of art he called Art-as-Art and used his writing and satirical cartoons to advocate for abstract art and against what he described as "the disreputable practices of artists-as-artists".
Charles Green Shaw was an American artist who painted in the style of abstract expressionism. Shaw began his career as a writer and poet, but later became a painter. In the 1930s he was one of the organizers and members of a group of artists who experimented with abstract art in New York.
He is known for his painting compositions in which he used bright colors and geometric shapes. In the 1940s, Shaw became more interested in abstract art and began painting in the style of Abstract Expressionism. His work included large abstract paintings as well as a series of prints and lithographs.
Shaw was one of the first American artists whose work was recognized in Europe. In the 1950s he was recognized for his work in the genre of Abstract Expressionism and was invited to participate in numerous exhibitions around the world.