The pioneers of the drip and splash
Outsmarting the boys' club
Radical breakthroughs in technique
Broadening the canvas globally and culturally
andy Match the paint splatters to discover the overlooked women who pioneered abstract art.
andy Art of This Century
Before the boys got famous, we dripped the paint at Art of This Century!
andy Born in Ukraine, Janet Sobel used pipettes and vacuums to blow paint in New York, leading to a 1944 Peggy Guggenheim exhibition.
Which Ukrainian-American artist pioneered the 'drip painting' technique that later became Jackson Pollock's signature style?
What unusual household tool did artist Janet Sobel use to spread wet paint across her canvases?
andy The overlooked pioneer shaped the New York Abstract Expressionist movement alongside her peers.
What is the title of Lee Krasner's monumental 1966 painting that celebrated life, nature, and rebirth?
Which Abstract Expressionist artist was married to Jackson Pollock and often put her own career on hold to manage his?
Drip origins: Long before Jackson Pollock's famous splatters, Ukrainian-American artist Janet Sobel was dripping wet house paint onto canvases using her son's glass eye-droppers.
Who was one of the key female artists to exhibit her work at the famous 1951 9th Street Art Exhibition?
In which year did the landmark 9th Street Art Exhibition take place, solidifying the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York?
A technique of abstract art in which paint is dripped, poured, or splattered onto a canvas. Ukrainian-born artist Janet Sobel pioneered this method in 1943, later inspiring Jackson Pollock's signature style.
In 1943, Peggy Guggenheim organized a groundbreaking exhibition dedicated entirely to which group of artists?
What was the name of Peggy Guggenheim's influential New York gallery that opened in 1942?