Abstract expressionism

Nigel Halliday  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Dec 2016
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Abstract expressionism

Jackson Pollock, Blue 212.1 x 488.9 cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | image: © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation ARS, NY and DACS London 2016

Nigel Halliday gives a Christian perspective on the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts

Abstract Expressionism has sometimes been dismissed as merely large daubs that could have been done by the proverbial ‘child of six’.

But the painters themselves were deeply serious, using painting to reach after answers to our deepest questions, and producing images far more complex and coherent than any child of six would produce.

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