ABSTRACT ART, CUBISM ANDEXPRESSIONISM• Expressive art• Radical for that time• Post war 1930’s• The movement was one ideal for painter• Canvases with fields of colour and abstract forms • Interest in the unconscious • Expressive art of profound emotion and universal themes • Shaped by the legacy of Surrealism

What Are the Key Characteristics of Abstract Expressionism?

• Unconventional application of paint, usually without a recognizable subject (de Kooning's Woman series is an exception) that tends toward amorphous shapes in brilliant colors.• Dripping, smearing, slathering, and flinging lots of paint on to the

canvas (often an unprimed canvas).• Sometimes gestural "writing" in a loosely calligraphic manner.• In the case of Color Field artists: carefully filling the picture plane with

zones of color that create tension between the shapes and hues.

William de Kooning ‘Gotham News’, 1955

Jackson Pollock “Convergence” 1952

Provincetown House, 1940Hans Hofmann (American, b. Germany, 1880-1966)

Hanns Hoffman “Equinox” “Pompeii”

Sonia Delauney ‘Danced with Colour’‘Market at Minho’

Sonia Delauney ‘Electric Prisms’

Create a painting using this as an example to work from

Use of complementary, primary and secondary colours

Pick one shape to work from for example diamond or circle