The exhibition “Pollock and the Irascibles” at Palazzo Reale in Milan gathers about fifty works from the end of the ‘30s to the middle of the ‘60’s from the collection of Whitney Museum of American Art of New York.
With Cubism, Abstract Expressionism is one of the major art movements of the twentieth century. It marks the same fluent aesthetics as the novels on the road by Jack Kerouac and Miles Davis’s jazz. The New York School, namely action painting, found its own expression code in the dripping (Jackson Pollock) and in the colored materic gesture (Willem de Kooning or Franz Kline) together with the Field Color Painting by Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still e Barnett Newman.

Text by Vladek Cwalinski

Exhibition: Pollock e gli Irascibili – La Scuola di New York
Where: Palazzo Reale, Milano
When: Until February 16th, 2014.