Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock is considered by many to be one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, although he has had his share of detractors. He created a completely new form of art, free from the confines of paint brushes and easels, where his mind and body worked together on the...
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann was born in Weibenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880. At the age of six he moved to Munich where his father, Theodor Hofmann, took a job with the Bavarian government. As a student, Hofmann had a keen interest in mathematics and his father’s job enabled him to pursue this...
Franz Kline
Franz Jozef Kline was born May 23 1910 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He studied at Girard College before attending Boston University. He then took art courses at the Art Students League in Boston from 1931 to 1935 and traveled abroad to London from 1936 to 1938 and studied at the...
Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly was born 1928 in Lexington, Virginia. He studied art in Boston, New York and at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met other notable artists like John Cage, Robert Motherwell and Robert Rauschenberg. Cy traveled to North Africa and Europe as a young man and...