abstract expressionism final powerpoint
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Abstract Expressionism
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What is Abstract Expressionism ?
Prominent between 1940’s to the mid 1950’s
Post world war II American art movement
New York at center
Rebellious, anarchic, and Idiosyncratic
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Origin
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) Surrealist The Father of Abstract Expressionism A bridge
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Gorky’s Famous Works
PORTRAIT OF MASTER BILL (1929-1936)
THE LIVER IS THE COCK’S COMB (1944)
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Foundations
Kandinsky's Abstraction
The Dadaist’s reliance on chance
Surrealist’s endorsement of Freudian theory
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Characteristics
Usually on large canvas
Emotional Intensity
The Act of painting
Careful planning
Energetic application of paint
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Styles
Action Painting Jackson Pollock Willem De
Kooning Franz Kline
Color Field Mark Rothko Clyfford Still Barnett Newman Kenneth Noland
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Color Field
Brush strokes and large planes of color.
Create tension between the shapes and hues
More emphasis on overall consistency of form and process
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Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale
Inspired by mythology and philosophy
Basic human emotions Color = “merely an instrument” Nebulous rectangles
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Blue, Orange, and Red (1961)
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No. 61 (Rust and Blue) - 1953
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Clyford Still (1904-1980)
Shift from representational to abstraction
One layer of painting seems “torn” off.
Thick impasto, unlike Rothko.
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No.1 (1957)
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No.2 (1957)
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Barnett Newman(1905-1970)
Used lines on vast fields of color
Rejected the expressive brushwork
Unappreciated, and overlooked.
Signature mark was the “Zip”
Named his works with Jewish themes.
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Onement 1 (1948)
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Vir Heroicus Sublimis (1950-51)
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Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)
4 groups: Circles/Targets Chevrons Stripes Shaped Canvases
Emphasized spatial relationships
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Beginning (1958)
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Bridge (1964)
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Action Painting
Paint is dripped, slashed, smeared or even splashed.
Emphasize the physical act of painting.
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Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Born in Cody, Wyoming
Jack the Ripper Drip-and-splatter
Helped begin this movement
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Jackson Pollock: Techniques
Created the drip method
Used sticks, harden brushes and basting syringes
With unbounded canvases on the floor or wall
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Untitled (Green Silver)- 1949
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Ocean Greyness (1953)
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Number 8 (1949)
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Willem De Kooning (1904-1997)
Born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
garish colors
Background figures overlap other figures
Woman series
The New York School
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Woman V (1952-1953)
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Valentine (1947)
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Franz Kline (1910-1962)
Didn’t care about figure and imagery
Instead, focused on actual brush strokes
Black and white
“The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotion come across?"
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Painting #2 (1954)
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Suspended (1953)