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09 Abstract Expressionism
09 Abstract Expressionism
EXPRESSIONISM
c. 1945 - 1965
AVI 4M1
Dadaism
Abstract
Expressionism
Futurism
Modernism
Constructivism
Cubism
DeStijl
Bauhaus
Expressionism
International
Style
Various Expressionist
movements
Many refugee
artists got jobs
teaching in new art
schools that
embraced Avant
Garde ideas.
Action Painting
The act of
painting was
as important
as the finished
product; the
action should
be felt by the
viewer.
Jackson Pollock painting
High Modernism
Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1950
Lee Krasner
Willem de
Kooning,
Woman 1,
1950
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko,
Orange and
Yellow,
1957
Later
Abstract
Expressionis
m became
less
expressive
and more
concerned
with
geometry or
paint
effects;
Josef Albers,
Study for Homage
to the Square
Helen Frakenthaler
Abstract
Expressionism
:
c.1945 1960
Abstract
Expressionism
- The personal
expressiveness of
Influenced
by:
Expressionism;
Abstract Expressionism:
Characteristics: