Nenad Karpov (1937-2018), Amsterdam, 1981.

Watercolor, pen, marker, paper,

Nenad Karpov was born in 1937.in Amsterdam, died in 2018.in the USA. His work
was heavily influenced by the 1950s ubw In the postwar period, the lens of modernism focused
in terms of international attention, on events in New York. The second war
World War II brought many important artists from Europe to the city in exile, which led to a
to a significant mix of talents and ideas. Important Europeans who came to
New York and provided inspiration for American artists were Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers and
Hans Hoffmann, who together laid the foundation for significant cultural development in the United States
United States in the following decades. Key artists from the generation of Abstract Expressionism
of abstract expressionism were Jackson Pollock (who modernized his famous techniques of painting with drips,
splattering and pouring), Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Frank Kline, Barnett
Newman, Clyfford Still and Adolph Gottlieb. It was a male-dominated environment,
although a necessary reassessment of the period has highlighted the contributions of female artists such as.
Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and Louise Bourgeois, among others.