Abstract Expressionism: The View from the Top

The New York Review of Books

"Unlike Impressionism or Cubism, Abstract Expressionism was not a style or a movement. What the five pioneers had in common was not a shared aesthetic, a painting technique, or a manifesto but a sense of the overwhelming importance of art, a bedrock belief in the power of painting to address ideas and emotions at the deepest level," writes Richard Dorment.

Abstract Expressionism: The View from the Top

With thirty-six artists represented by over 150 works, the Royal Academy’s stupendous survey of Abstract Expressionism is the first on this scale staged in Britain for almost six decades.

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