... leading portraitist in England and the United States at the turn of the century, John Singer Sargent was acclaimed for his elegant and very stylish depictions of high society. Known for his technical precocity, he turn away from traditional academic guidelines in favor of a modern approach towards technique, color and form, therefore making his own special contribution to the history ... of portraiture. A "true cosmopolite,"" he was also a painter of landscapes and genre scenes, drawing his subjects from such diverse locations as England, France, Italy and Switzerland. In doing ... his ...

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... were flat be their very nature as his subjects-flags, numbers. In essence, Steinberg blew Abstract Expressionism out of the water almost overnight. Something had finally come along to crush the pureness abstract expressionism represented and, in the end, proved it to be a sort of post-pure artform. This art became Pop Art because it used sign systems and the like as its ... 309) Aside de Kooning, and perhaps farther set apart from the action painters is Arshile Gorky, who used abstract expressionism melded with surrealism to create forms of color that melted into each other to form cont...

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