Lyrical Abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction refers to two related but distinctly separate trends in Post-war Modernist painting; European Lyrical Abstraction born in Paris in 1945, and the French critic Charles Estienne created its name in 1946. American Lyrical Abstraction was a movement described by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969 Post World War II France was trying to reconstruct her identity devasta... more
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