Ab Exp, Mini

• Kooning
• Woman 1
• 1905-1952

• Pollock
• Lavender Mist
• 1950

Gestural Abstraction emphasizes the process of making art, often through a variety of techniques that include dripping, dabbing, smearing, and even flinging paint on to the surface of the canvas. These energetic techniques depend on broad actions directed by the artist's sense of control interacting with chance or random occurrences.

• Rothko
• No. 14
• 1960

focuses on the emotional resonance of color

• Frankenthaler
• Bay Side
• 1967

a predominantly sculptural American trend of the 1960’s characterized by works featuring a severe reduction of form, often to single homogenous units

• Judd
• Untitled
• 1969