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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Alberto Burri, Andre Lanskoy, Antonio Saura, Antoni Tapies, Asger Jorn, Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, Emilio Scanavino, Emil Schumacher, Enrico Donati, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Ferruccio Bortoluzzi, Gen Paul, Georges Mathieu, Guy de Lussigny, Hans-Jurgen Schlieker, Hans Hartung, Henri Michaux, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Jean Miotte, Jean Rene Bazaine, Joan-Josep Tharrats, Karel Appel, Karel Kuklik, Louis Van Lint, Lucio Fontana, Ludwig Merwart, Luigi Malice, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Michel Tapie, Modest Cuixart, Nicolas de Stael, Norman Bluhm, Paul Jenkins (painter), Pierre Alechinsky, Pierre Soulages, Pierre Tal-Coat, Rene Laubies, Roger Bissiere, Sam Francis, Serge Poliakoff, Wols. Excerpt: Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, (October 13, 1920 - March 15, 2010), professionally known as Elaine Hamilton, was an internationally known American abstract painter and muralist born near Catonsville, Maryland. She was professionally admired by the influential French critic Michel Tapie de Celeyran and exhibited internationally in solo and multiple-artist exhibits in the United States, Mexico, South Asia, Japan, and throughout Europe. She showed twice in the Venice Biennale and won first prize at the 1968 Biennale de Menton in France. She is known for the work of her final stylistic phase, known as action painting. Hamilton is also a high mountain climber with over 30 years experience climbing the Himilayas. She had climbed K2, which is part of the Karakoram Range and known as the Savage Mountain due to the difficulty of ascent, with the second highest fatality rate among those who attempt to climb it. For every four people who have reached the summit, one has died trying. Over the years, Hamilton made nine different trips to different mountains of the Himalayas. She also visited the former kingdom of Sikkim as a guest of Tashi Namgyal, the ruling Chogyal (King) of Sikkim and the royal family. For three decades, Hamilton traveled throughout India, Pakistan, the former kingdom of Sikkim (annexed by India in 1975) and Japan. In Pakistan in 1959, she was asked to produce work for an exhibition that was administered by the foreign minister of Pakistan. The ministries of Pakistan also gave her permission to make her first K2 expedition. This expedition resulted in the welcome realization of her individual artistic vision and the creation of her first completely abstract work, Burst Beyond the Image. Patapsco River in Patapsco Valley State ParkElaine Hamilton was born on October 13, 1920 to a middle-class family in Paradise, near Catonsville, Maryland. She was the daughter of Robert Bruce and Lee (nee Wood) Hamilton. Paradise was home to her maternal grandparents, William and Car
