ABSTRACT EXPRESSOINISM

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

1940’S-50’S U.S.A.

LEADING ARTISTS:

JACKSON POLLOCKMARK ROTHKO

WILLEM DE KOONINGFRANZ KLINE

THIS WAS CONSIDERED VERY SERIOUS “HIGH” ART

ART CRITICS PLAYED A LARGE ROLE IN MAKING ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM A LEADING ART

FORM

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTSABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS:- WERE INFLUENCED BY SURREALISTS

AND THEIR WORK WITH THE UNCONCIOUS

- -ALSO PICASSO & CUBISM- -THEY TRIED TO PAINT ABSTRACT

EMOTIONS WHICH THEY SAW AS “PURE” AND “TRUE”

- -THEY MADE MASSIVE PAINTINGS- -THEY CARED ABOUT THE PROCESS

OF PAINTING

CAN BE SPLIT INTO TWO BROAD STYLES:

THE ACTION PAINTERS&

THE COLOUR FIELD PAINTERS

JACKSON POLLOCK 1912-1956LEADER OF THE ACTION PAINTERS

MARK ROTHKO 1903- 1970 LEAD THE COLOUR FIELD PAINTERS

OTHER ACTION PAINTERS:

WILLEM DE KOONING

FRANZ KLINE

“ACTION PAINTERS”:- -GESTURAL- -MOVEMENT- -ACTION- DIRECTION- THICK PAINT- -LARGE SCALE- -BOLD BRUSH STROKES

OTHER COLOUR FIELD PAINTERS:

ADOLPH GOTTLIEB

HELEN FRANKENTHALER

COLOUR FIELD PAINTERS:- -LARGE FIELDS OR

SHAPES OF COLOUR- -FIELDS SEEM TO HOVER OR “FLOAT”- -BLENDED BRUSH

STROKES- -CALM AND GENTLE- -SPIRITUAL- -MEDITATIVE QUALITY

AND PLENTY IN BETWEEN THESE CATEGORIES:

LEE KRASNER

CY TWOMBLEY

MARK TOBEY

TOBEY & POLLOCK

POLLOCK & PICASSO

SURREALISM VS ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

SURREALISTS:

-TAP THE SUBCONCIOUS THROUGH AUTOMATICDRAWING & WRITING

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST:

-TAP THE SUBCONCIOUSTHROUGH AUTOMATICDRAWING & PAINTING

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM:THE LOGICAL CONCLUSION OF THE AVANT

GUARD ART?

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ABSTRACTION 1910 EXPRESSIONISM 1920’S

SURREALISM 1930’S

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FREEDOM= TRUTH

PUREEMOTION=TRUTH

POP ART1960’s: Rebelled against the SERIOUSNESS

of the Abstract Expressionists

& Neo-Expressionismin the 1980’s

What else did Abstract Expressionism leadto?

Agnes Martin“Meditative”“Tranquil”“Calm”

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