American Abstract Artists

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…

I discovered that he has composed many painting and drawings that were compositions of the “walking dead” or sick looking figures. This may be due to the fact that during World War II, Kadish was recruited in the US Army 's Artist Unit, an elite branch funded by Congress to artistically document the war effort. Having to fulfill these duties, it is not a surprise that Kadish would be surrounded by much death and as a result his art showed it. This is what I think he is trying…

How did techniques within abstract expressionism emerge as a result of the social influences of World War II? As the arts express the feeling of the time, abstract expressionism emerged in the mid 1940s to the 1950s to express the personal feelings, and larger spiritual feelings of the artists. This style of painting cannot be described with a specific style, but rather against realist and traditional styles. The common element in their artwork was the emotional component that drove their…

“Entrance to the Subway” is an oil painting on canvas, by Mark Rothko, an American painter of Russian-Jewish descent. This painting is part of series of street scenes and subway pictures made in the 1930’s by Mark Rothko (National Gallery of Art). This painting serves as an example of depression-era paintings, a time of poverty and unemployment. The main purpose of this painting is to portray the loneliness of city life. The youngest of four children Mark Rothko was born Marcus Yakovlevich…

In the words of 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…

mid-forties the artist lived in Mumbai, before spending relocating to London and attending St. Martin 's School of the Arts, in London in the late fifties. The artist lived for a short time with her family in Bahrain, a small island country off the western shores of the Persian gulf. In the sixties she lived and studied with a scholarship in Paris before returning to India. There she joined the Bhulabhai Institute for the Arts in Mumbai. The Bhulabhai Institute also included famous Indian…

seventeen years of his life he had chronic hypochondria and when he was fourteen his father died. Andy Warhol created an abstract colored silk screen of Campbell Soup Cans. He persisted to innovate ways to overcome his challenges such as his hypochondria as a child. He illuminated the world by changing the way people thought about pop art. Warhol created a styles of art where abstract color is added to popular figures. “ Warhol was one of the founders of pop art, a stylistic movement that…

“She’s pretty interesting because 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,…

Eight The tile of the painting I researched is “There Were Seven In Eight” This painting was created by Jackson Pollock during the year of 1943. “There Were Seven In Eight” is now located in New York, at the Museum Of Modern Art. ("Art/Museums: Abstract Expressionist New York at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Oct. 3, 2010 to April 25, 2011.") During the creation of this art Pollock would take month long breaks and would continue back making this a long project to finish. The project…

wise words of an American painter, Robert Motherwell, could not have described abstract art any better I strongly believe. He intricately and sophisticatedly describes the breath-taking style of abstract art as follows, “The function of abstraction is to get rid of a lot of reality. You start with as much richness as you want, and subtract, and then you arrive at the residue of essences that you’re interested in.” This description really allows the reader to visualize the artist at the canvas,…