French, 20th century, male.
Painter.
Sébastien de Ganay first exhibited in Paris in a solo exhibition at the Galerie Jacqueline Moussion.
His work is suggestive of Abstract Expressionism but is based on an original process. He covers the stretcher with sheets of plastic film containing paint and waits for several weeks for the colour to set....
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1946.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver.
John Himmelfarb is an architecture graduate from Harvard University. He is an exponent of Abstract Expressionism whose development of line has been described as 'dramatic'. His often calligraphic drawings and paintings spring from jazz rhythms or an allusive imagery. Himmelfarb is best known for the gigantism of his 'works in progress' executed in full view of the public, much in the way of a performance. He has benefited from grants from the National Education Association and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He has shown his works in solo exhibitions mostly in the Midwest but also at the University of Connecticut, Fairfield, and at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand....
Swiss, 20th century, male.
Born 1929, in Basel.
Painter, engraver.
Bruno Muller studied for a year with Pierre Francastel at the École des Hautes Études in Paris. He evolved an Expressionist style which took on a progressively Abstract Expressionist flavour, with large, violently coloured, concise forms which bring to mind not the content but the sculptural vocabulary of Pouget or Cristoforou. He produced single designs....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 28 January 1912, in Cody, Wyoming; died 11 August 1956, in Southampton, New York.
Painter, printmaker (etchings, screenprints).
Abstract Expressionism, Action Painting.
School of New York.
Jackson Pollock was born in Wyoming and spent his childhood in California, then in Arizona. He began to study painting and sculpture from 1925 at the Manual Art School of Los Angeles, where he was expelled after two years. He went to New York City in 1930 to study at the Art Students League. He was the pupil of Thomas Hart Benton who, even though he became a friend, never exercised much lasting influence on him. Pollock worked on murals for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1943. In 1936, he attended the experimental workshop of David Alfaro Siqueiros in Union Square. After his marriage to Lee Krasner, a pupil of Hans Hofmann, in 1944, he settled in Long Island....
