 Although his style changed dramatically over time, he remained deeply interested in gestural abstraction, and the ethos of Abstract Expressionism.Among his more noted work are a series of poem paintings done with his good friend the poet Frank O'Hara.Shortly before Bluhm died, in 1999, "Art in America" editor Raphael Rubinstein predicted that the works Bluhm made in the 1980s and 1990s at the end of his career would be as important to the 21st century as Cézanne’s later output was to the 20th.