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These are the artists whose work is important and influential to the
artists (lyrical abstractionists and abstract illusionists) upon whom
this site focuses. Without them we would be nowhere. It must start
with the work of Jackson Pollock, America's greatest painter.
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| Jackson
Pollock 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. |
America's Greatest Artist. |
| Unknown Sculptor |
The She-Wolf. |
| José Clemente
Orozco |
Mexican muralist that influenced Pollock. |
| Tan'g Yin |
Chinese Landscape Painting. |
| Katsushika Hokusai |
Japanese Master. |
| Paolo Uccello |
Renaissance master of perspective. |
| Francisco Goya |
Miró's favorite. |
| Edouard Manet |
The first modernist, and a good lemon painter. |
| Gustave
Caillebotte |
Friend, collaborator, and major patron to the Impressionist painters. |
| Georges
Seurat |
Neo-Impressionist. |
| Vincent van Gogh |
Flower Painter. |
| William Harnett |
Master of illusion. |
| Thomas Eakins |
American Realist. |
| Winslow Homer,2. |
Was the master portrayer of outdoor life in America. |
| Albert Pinkam Ryder, 2. |
Revered expressionist American painter — Pollock's favorite. |
| Claude Monet |
Master Impressionist and precursor to 20th century painting. |
| Piet Mondrian |
Non-Objective. |
New Henri
Mattisse |
"Matisse's own kind of Cubism" |
| Robert Delaunay,2. |
Amazing Colour Orphic Cubist. |
| Patrick Henry Bruce,2. |
Early 20th Century Cubist and a precursor of Abstract Illusionism. |
| New Morgan
Russell |
Another Colour Orphic Cubist. |
| Marsden Hartley |
A painting of New Mexico by this American modern master. |
| NewAuthur
Dove |
This early abstractionist gives us some sun. |
| NewJohn
Marin |
The master of watercolor. |
| NewWassily
Kandinsky,2. |
This early abstractionist went geometric. |
| Kazimir Malevich |
Early 20th Century Constructivist and a precursor of Abstract Illusionism. |
| Giorgio Morandi |
Bottle Etcher. |
| Augustus Vincent
Tack |
Beautiful. |
| Edward Hopper |
Excellent and lonely. |
| M. C. Escher |
Trickster. |
| Max Weber |
Do it in pastel ! |
| William Baziotes |
Septer. |
| NewFranz
Kline,2,3, 4. |
First generation Abstract Expressionist. |
| Robert Motherwell |
Abstract Expressionist. |
| Hans Hofmann |
Abstract Expressionist. |
| NewClyfford
Still, 2, 3, 4. |
Abstract Expressionist. |
| Mark Tobey |
Northwest Abstract Expressionist. |
| Adolph Gottleib |
Abstract Expressionist. |
| Mark Rothko,2. |
An Abstract Expressionist who really used color. |
| NewBarnett
Newman,2. |
Abstract Expressionist and Colorfield Painter. |
| 6-22-03 NewLorser
Feitelson |
One of the original "Hard Edge" Painters. |
| John McLaughlin |
Original "Hard Edge" Painter with Soul. |
| Georgia O'Keeffe |
America's foremost woman artist? |
| Philip Guston,2. |
Abstract Expressionist. |
| Herbert Bayer |
Modern. |
| Max
Bill,2. |
Architect, painter, sculptor, politician, educationalist,
writer, in short, a 'universal creator'. |
| Bridget
Riley,2. |
Optical Artist. |
| Isamu Noguchi |
Sculptor. |
| Alfred Jensen |
A Periodic Table. |
| Joan Miró |
Late in his life Miró embraced Lyrical Abstraction. |
| Jon Schuler |
Second Wave Abstract Expresionist. |
| Edward Dugmore |
Second Wave Abstract Expresionist. |
| Edward Corbett,2, 3. |
Second Wave Abstract Expresionist. |
| Jack Jefferson,2. |
San Francisco Abstract Expressionist. |
| NewFrank
Lobdell,2,3. |
San Francisco Abstract Expressionist. |
| Fred Martin, 2, 3,4. |
San Francisco Abstract Expressionist and teacher. |
| Richard Diebenkorn,2. |
One of the best of the left coast. |
| Morris Louis,2. |
Inventor of Lyrical Abstraction. |
| Helen Frankenthaler |
The "bridge" between Pollock and the rest of us. |
| Jules Olitski |
Sprayed. |
| Joan Brown |
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| Sam Francis |
The other of the best of the left coast. |
| Joan Mitchell |
A latter painting by one of the "second generation" of abstract
expressionists. |
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