Abstract expressionism

art and abstract expressionism. While they both emerged roughly ten years apart, in the 1950’s and the 1940’s respectively; on the surface they’re two vastly different though, in reality they are more alike than they may seem. Abstract expressionism is what most would think of when they hear the words “abstract art.” When you first look at a work of abstract expressionism there seems to be no recognisable subject however there are seemingly random shapes or splatters of paint. Abstract…

emigration from Russia to the United States due to his fear of the draft of the Imperial Russian Army of his sons. In the content of the discussion of abstract expressionism, although most of the scholars and professionals refer Mark Rothko as one of the representatives of artists in abstract expressionism, the painter himself denied his work is abstract.  The tone of ‘Dark’ It is not necessary for the so-called ‘dark paintings’ to be sombre. In the artwork produced by Mark Rothko, it…

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 government…

Henry Rosenberg, “At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event, (SOURCE)” which illuminates the definition of American Expressionism. An artistic movement that highlighted the unconscious self expression of the artist at the time, rather than the dynamic and realistic form of the event itself. The movement peaked in New York, being apart of the avant-garde, and…

anything can define art. It can appear like virtually everything. It just depends on who is the creator. Jackson Pollock was a creator of abstract expressionism. The style drifts from the realistic drawing and heads more for pure color and configuration. Not everybody cares for the style and discussions have risen on whether this manner of abstract expressionism represents art. Even though the first look makes Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles painting seem like child's play, a closer evaluation of…

work. This included, Anni and Joseph Albers, Mondrian, Andre Masson, and Max Ernst, while bringing their innovative methods of abstraction. The intrusion of Avant-Garde ideology is believed to be the stepping stone that led to the success of the Abstract Expressionist in New York in the 1940’s-50’s. Artists of the AB-EX movement looked at works by archaic civilizations in search for eternal compositions. Influenced by Jungian psychology that emphasizes the importance of the individual psyche and…

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 the first…

she’s mostly only known for being married to Jackson Pollock and for her involvement in his career; she’s often characterized as high-strung and codependent. People tend to forget she was an artist herself, who was also an early innovator of abstract expressionism.” Jesse “Wow I did not know that.” Anna “The style of her paintings did change and seem similar to Jackson Pollock’s style after they met. Her earlier work was more analytical and formal, reflective of her artistic training and…

artistic experimentation. “Modern artists represented new ways of seeing, bringing forth-new ideas about the functionality of art and the nature of materials” [wiki – modern art]. I will be investigating how the careers of two pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner’s’ careers diverged in different trajectories and if society had any role to play. Using specific examples of their work I will determine if the mood of the postwar era had an influence on the art…

Claes Oldenburg Who is Claes Oldenburg? Claes Thure Oldenburg is an American sculptor, painter, and pop artist, known as the, “reigning king of Pop sculpture since the early 1960’s.” Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden. Son of Gösta Oldenburg and Sigrid Elisabeth; due to his father being a member of the Swedish foreign service, Claes and his family moved quite often. Brother of Richard Oldenburg a well-known art historian whom of which was director of the Museum of…