New York School
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The New York School was a mid-20th-century avant-garde art movement centered in New York City, best known for its Abstract Expressionist painters and innovative approaches to form, color, and gesture.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: New York School Context triple: [Barnett Newman, associatedWith, New York School]
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Boston School of painters
The Boston School of painters was a late 19th- and early 20th-century American art movement centered in Boston, known for blending academic drawing with impressionist color and light in refined portraits and interiors.
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Hudson River School
The Hudson River School was a 19th-century American art movement known for its romantic, idealized landscape paintings that celebrated the natural beauty and emerging national identity of the United States.
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Art Students League of New York
The Art Students League of New York is a renowned independent art school in Manhattan known for its influential role in training generations of prominent American artists.
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Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a mid-20th-century American literary and cultural movement known for its rejection of conventional values, exploration of spirituality and sexuality, and influential works by writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
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Barbizon school
The Barbizon school was a mid-19th-century French art movement centered on naturalistic landscape painting and rural life, which helped pave the way for Impressionism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: New York School Target entity description: The New York School was a mid-20th-century avant-garde art movement centered in New York City, best known for its Abstract Expressionist painters and innovative approaches to form, color, and gesture.
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A.
Boston School of painters
The Boston School of painters was a late 19th- and early 20th-century American art movement centered in Boston, known for blending academic drawing with impressionist color and light in refined portraits and interiors.
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B.
Hudson River School
The Hudson River School was a 19th-century American art movement known for its romantic, idealized landscape paintings that celebrated the natural beauty and emerging national identity of the United States.
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C.
Art Students League of New York
The Art Students League of New York is a renowned independent art school in Manhattan known for its influential role in training generations of prominent American artists.
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D.
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a mid-20th-century American literary and cultural movement known for its rejection of conventional values, exploration of spirituality and sexuality, and influential works by writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
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Barbizon school
The Barbizon school was a mid-19th-century French art movement centered on naturalistic landscape painting and rural life, which helped pave the way for Impressionism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art movement
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avant-garde movement ⓘ cultural movement ⓘ |
| activeIn | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| alsoRefersTo |
New York School
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
New York School (music)
New York School self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
New York School (poetry)
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| artForm |
drawing
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painting ⓘ printmaking ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ad Reinhardt
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Adolph Gottlieb ⓘ Arshile Gorky ⓘ Barnett Newman ⓘ Clyfford Still ⓘ Elaine de Kooning ⓘ Franz Kline ⓘ Grace Hartigan ⓘ Hans Hofmann ⓘ Helen Frankenthaler ⓘ Jackson Pollock ⓘ Joan Mitchell ⓘ Lee Krasner ⓘ Mark Rothko ⓘ Philip Guston ⓘ Robert Motherwell ⓘ Willem de Kooning ⓘ |
| centeredIn |
Greenwich Village
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Manhattan ⓘ downtown New York art scene ⓘ |
| characteristic |
all-over composition
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emotional intensity ⓘ emphasis on gesture ⓘ emphasis on spontaneity ⓘ emphasis on the act of painting ⓘ experimentation with color fields ⓘ large-scale canvases ⓘ non-representational imagery ⓘ rejection of traditional composition ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticAssociated |
Clement Greenberg
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Dore Ashton ⓘ Harold Rosenberg ⓘ Thomas B. Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emergedAfter | decline of Paris as art capital ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt |
Art of This Century gallery
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Betty Parsons Gallery ⓘ Museum of Modern Art ⓘ
surface form:
The Museum of Modern Art
The Sidney Janis Gallery ⓘ |
| helpedEstablish | New York City as center of the art world ⓘ |
| influenced |
Color Field painting
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Abstract expressionism ⓘ
surface form:
Lyrical Abstraction
post-painterly abstraction ⓘ
surface form:
Post-painterly abstraction
contemporary abstract painting ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Automatic drawing
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Cubism ⓘ European modernism ⓘ Freudian psychoanalysis ⓘ Expressionism ⓘ
surface form:
German Expressionism
Joan Miró ⓘ Jungian psychology ⓘ Pablo Picasso ⓘ Piet Mondrian ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ World War II displacement of European artists ⓘ existentialist philosophy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Abstract Expressionist painting
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innovative approaches to color ⓘ innovative approaches to form ⓘ innovative approaches to gesture ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| movementType |
Abstract expressionism
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surface form:
Abstract Expressionism
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| periodEnd | 1960s ⓘ |
| periodOfGreatestActivity |
1950s
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late 1940s ⓘ |
| periodStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| relatedMovement |
Abstract expressionism
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surface form:
Abstract Expressionism
Action painting ⓘ Color Field painting ⓘ |
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Referenced by (76)
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this entity surface form:
New York School (art movement)
this entity surface form:
New York School (art)
this entity surface form:
New York avant-garde
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New York School of poets
this entity surface form:
New York School poets
this entity surface form:
New York School poetry