Exploring Theodoros Stamos' Abstract Expressionism

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“New Field” by Theodoros Stamos is part of the “Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection of the University of Arizona” exhibition at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. The artwork is part of this exhibition because Mr. Gallagher donated it. The exhibition featured several pieces of work that all used color and lines to produce the essence of scenery. The artwork depicts Theodoros Stamos’ abstract expressionist style, where he uses a distinguished set of colors on a large flat canvas.
According to an article published in the New York Times, Theodoros Stamos was a Greek American artist who was one of the pioneers for expressionistic painters. Although he was a generation behind Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, making him the youngest, he is considered part of the original group of abstract expressionist painters. The “New field” artwork is part of Stamos’s Infinity Field Lefkada Series, a series he work on that included a large variety of paintings all that took color and lines to create scenery. Theodoros Stamos attended New York’s American Artists’ School after receiving a full scholarship to study sculpture, but in 1939 he dropped out to pursue a concentration in painting. He received his first solo exhibition in 1943 and soon after became an …show more content…

In addition, his brushstrokes enforce a rather mixed mood, one. However his art may not be non-objective due to the fact that around this time period of 1957, Stamos was painting emotions in relation to nature and the nature vibe is clearly seen with the use of colors and therefore the artwork is not non-objective because it does depict a recognizable subject. The use of green and brown can be related to trees, while yellows the sun. Overall, the artwork sticks to expressionist values while giving off a disheartened mood due to the brushstrokes and color

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