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Ansel Adams
The Zone System – divides the range of tones into ten zones ranging from Zone 0 (pure black) to Zone IX (pure white) Assists in printing black and white photos to emphasize detail
Jackson Pollock
American
Action Paintings
“The modern painter cannot express his age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age finds its own technique.”
Mark Rothko
Russian Jew who came to AmericaColor Field PaintingBest viewed 18 inches away“The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.”Killed himself
Mark RothkoUntitled 1960, Oil on canvas