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Art Works Gallery
225 Smithe Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B 4X7
Canada
T: 604.688.3301
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Halde Galerie
Haldenstrasse 24
8967 Widen (Zurich)
Switzerland
T: 41 56 631 16 49
www.haldegalerie.ch

gallery susan deWitt
5405 Taylor Road, suite 6
Naples, Florida
34109
USA
T: 239.254.8005
www.gallerysusandewitt.com

Harbour Gallery
1697 Lakeshore Road West
Mississauga, Ontario, L5J 1J4
Canada
T: 905.822.5495
www.harbourgallery.com

Abstract Expressionism

A term first used in connection with Kandinsky in 1919, but more commonly associated with post-war American art. Robert Coates, an American critic, coined it in 1946, referring to Gorky, Pollock and de Kooning. By 1951, the term was used to refer to all types of non-geometric abstraction in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition 'Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America'.

There are two distinct groups with in the movement; Colour Field with artists like Rothko, Newman and Still who worked with simple, unified blocks of colour. And then there are gestural painters like Pollock, de Kooning and Hofman who made use of surrealist techniques of automatic art. Not all the artists associated with the term produced either purely abstract, or purely expressionist work

Ann Thinghuus's abstracts result from the building and exposing layers of color and hues. Moving around her paintings, the repositioning of light reveals entirely new perspectives. Tension and balance through the blending of colours and hues evokes deep emotional reactions from the observer. The creator and viewer meet on the canvas to collaboratively experience individual thoughts and perceptions.