Avant-Garde Art and Experimentation

Arthur Dove

Arthur Garfield Dove in August 2, 1880 to the November 23, 1946 was an American artist. An early American Modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter.Although Dove has always occupied a central place in early American Modernism, he was also among the first twentieth-century American artists to produce purely abstract paintings, and he continued this to varying degrees throughout his career. His reputation continued to grow after his death and he has been credited with exercising an indirect influence on the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, who placed similar emphasis on the artist's subjective experience of his surroundings and on the intrinsic emotional power of color and line.

Piece of his work.

30's Arthur Dove

The Critic 1925 

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