Color Chart - Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MOMA

'This (MOMA) exhibition takes as its point of departure the commercial color chart, an item that openly declares the status of color as mass-produced and standardized. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual or emotional power of particular colors gave way to the embrace of color as an ordinary commodity...the...quest for personal expression...instead became Andy Warhol's "I want to be a machine." The artistry of mixing pigments was eclipsed by Frank Stella's "Straight out of the can; it can't get better than that." This exhibition features the work of forty-four artists who take a position in which art and life mingle rather than remain separate, and where beauty is found in the everyday rather than in the ideal.'

Ann Temkin, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture

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Webby Award Nominee, 2009

Philip Guston - The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

"Philip Guston (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from Abstract expressionism to Neo-expressionism in painting, abandoning the so-called "pure abstraction" of abstract expressionism in favor of more cartoonish renderings of various personal symbols and objects." - Wikipedia

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Create Your "Jackson Pollock" by Miltos Manetas. Orginial Design by Stamen.

Want to create your "Jackson Pollock"? This YouTube clip helps explain the experience. Click on the link below to start and click on your mouse to change colors - People's Choice Webby Award Winner, 2009

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