USA ART NEWS – Only recently are painters like Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning and Lee Krasner being recognised and reassessed. London’s Whitechapel Gallery is expanding the canon further still with Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970, an ambitious international survey celebrating a generation of women who helped to redefine art in the wake of the Second World War. The selection of more than 150 paintings by 80 artists orbits Abstract Expressionism but demonstrates how the movement’s experimental spirit travelled and evolved far beyond US borders.
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