Why Acrylic Became the Favorite Medium of Abstract Expressionists and Pop Artists
When people picture mid-twentieth-century American painting — the vast splattered canvases of the Abstract Expressionists, the crisp comic-strip panels and repeated soup cans of Pop — they are looking, more often than not, at acrylic. In the space of a single generation, a paint that barely existed commercially before the 1950s became the defining medium […]



