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Jackson Pollock was an abstract artist whose paintings have a deeper meaning than they seem to have. Everything he put on a canvas represented a form of expression whether through chalk or paint splatters. It was a way for him to be vulnerable and put his thoughts into a body of work. Pollock was a fan of John Cage’s music, because Cage too was pushing normal artistic views. Cage was introduced to the idea of Abstract Expressionism by an exhibit by Mark Tobey. He realized that art could just…

painters. He started his art career when he was only eighteen years old. He studied with countless numbers of well-known artists in his lifetime. From the Public Works Project in which he developed his most famous paintings, to being a part of the abstract expressionism art movement, Jackson Pollock was truly a talented and smart young man who got mixed up in something that eventually took his life. Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming to LeRoy Pollock and Stella May McClure. His father was a…

Abstract Expressionism is a term pertaining to a movement in American painting that thrived in New York City after World War II (late 1940’s). In abstract expressionism, the painter expresses their personality by the use of color and shapes. Abstract expressionist art does not necessarily consist of painting an object or image, but instead focuses more on the interaction of color, paint, and canvas. The varied works share the theme of using abstraction to convey strongly passionate and…

Painted in 1952, Pollock uses colors, lines, textures, shades, and shapes to successfully create an ideal face for the Abstract Art movement. Jackson Pollock’s painting style, demonstrated in Convergence, played an influential role in the development of the art world. With the United States in fear of the rapid spread of Communism during the Cold War, Convergence and other abstract works of art “embodied freedom of speech and expression.” Pollock’s artwork rebelled against the constraints of…

Abstract art uses words, shapes, colors and lines to create one big idea or concept, there are many different art genres like sculptures, animation, body art, digital art and my ‘’personal favorite’’ abstract art, because it can be neat and messy at the same time. Abstract art dates all the way back to the Renaissance and up to the middle of the 19th century. ‘’Air View of a Spring Nursery’’ by Alma Thomas makes me feel like a kid all over again, its colors pop off the canvas and makes me…

studying and comparing is Lavender Mist by Jackson Pollock and Mountains and sea by Helen Frankenthaler. Both paintings are a good representation of postwar American abstract expression art. These paintings exhibited new ways of creating art and how they’re portrayed to society. In this essay I will discuss the chaos and control in abstract expressionism through Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler’s works. I believe Jackson Pollock’s works are very creative and original, his paintings are…

Victor Vasarely should be taught to students of Art History 1 because he fused elements of design and the Abstract Expressionist movement to achieve and nurture the Op Art movement in the 1960s. Considered one of the originators of Op Art for his visually intricate and illusionistic portraits, Victor Vasarely spent the course of a lengthy, critically acclaimed profession seeking, and contending for, a method of art making that was profoundly social. He placed major significance on the…

moved through space and time. Mohamedi is most often associated with Agnes Martin, an American painter known for her abstract expressionism. Mohamedi was not aware of Martin until late in the career, and her similar use of lines and grids is purely coincidental. Mohamedi attended the Bhulabhai Institute of the arts with V.S. Gaitonde, the 20th century’s most famous Indian abstract artist, as well as Tyeb Mehta, a renowned painter and member of the Bombay Progressive Artists ' Group. Both artists…

artist, was a semi-abstract expressionist who was best known for her artwork in the 40’s. Piper was one of only four African-American abstract painters to have a solo exhibit in New York. This showcase, which led to her fame, was a series entitled Blues and Negro Folk Songs and all included pieces were directly linked to blues music or musicians. Slow Down, Freight Train was one of the 14 pieces in the exhibit and it is my belief that this work of art captures the semi-abstract style and then…

father Vasily Kandinsky on December 16, 1866 in Moscow, Russia and at the age of five him and his family moved to Odessa. Kandinsky was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. He is best known for his abstract paintings and was part of the expressionism and abstract art movement in his lifetime. Kandinsky did not, however, just create art. As a young boy, he learned to play the cello and piano, and also wrote poetry. In school, Wassily did not just study art; he also studied…