The Great Women Artists

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The Great Women Artists
Artist spotlight: Janet Sobel

Artist spotlight: Janet Sobel

Let me to introduce you to a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism!

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Katy Hessel
Mar 06, 2023
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Artist spotlight: Janet Sobel
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Ambitious, bold, energetic; full of action, scale, intensity, drama, Abstract Expressionism – a term loosely applied to artists working in New York in the 1940s and reaching their zenith in the 1950s – marked the entry point to America’s abstract avant-garde. It was a movement that paved the way for radical art-making in the latter half of the twentieth…

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