Jackson Pollock

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Full Fathom Five

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

The Uptown Group

Robert Motherwell

Ad Reinhardt

Jackson Pollack

David Hare

January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991Painter and Printer.

In 1944 he had his first one-man show at Peggy Guggenheim’s “Art of This Century” gallery

December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967Part of the movement centered around the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism. Lectured and wrote extensively.Claimed to be painting the "last paintings" that anyone can paint

March 10, 1917 – December 21, 1992

Primarily a sculpture but extensive work in photography and painting using his chemistry background. Set up a Surealist magazine. Exhibited his work as solo shows in a number of prestigious venues, including Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery

Navahoe Sand Painting Design

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge

My painting does not come from the easel.

Male Female

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said.

Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Alajandra du Solier

Sequerios

THEODOROS STAMOS (1922–1997)

FountainGouache

Pussette Dart

American art collector, bohemian and socialite. Born to a wealthy New York City family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912, and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who would establish the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Peggy Guggenheim created a noted art collection in Europe and America primarily between 1938 and 1946. She exhibited this collection as she built it and, in 1949, settled in Venice, where she lived and exhibited her collection for the rest of her life.

Guggenheim New York

Pollock-Krasner House and Studio, at 830 Springs Fireplace Road, in Springs on Long Island, NY.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

I continue to get further away from the usual

Day TripEvery good painter paints what he is.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting

Autumn Rythm

Every good painter paints what he is.

I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

Lavender mist

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Moby Dick

Moon Woman

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

PasiphaeWhen I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident

Shewolf

It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

Stenographic

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen

Untitled 1950

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.