Expressionism

Mary Abbott was born in New York City, and she is considered to be among the earliest proponents of abstract expressionism. Abbott’s work majorly comprises of powerful oil paintings, created by combining gestural and spontaneous brushwork and highly effective use of colour. Abbot’s work highly reflects her vital feeling of immediacy and the need to translate sensation into paint. Abbott started gaining interest in art in the early 1940s leading her to enrol for courses at the Art Students League…

According to Kandinsky’s book Concerning the Spiritual in Art written in 1912, “music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which this spiritual revolution makes itself felt.” (Kandinsky, part 1, Section 3) Kandinsky correlates specific colors with definite emotions, such as blue, a heavenly color, while black is the color of grief that is hardly human (Fineberg, 94). Kandinsky links color and music in his book by saying, “Generally speaking, color is a power which directly…

Graceshous Shearon For me, when things stopped being considered as art, is pretty much sprinkled throughout most of America’s art history and it is sadly at the end of European’s art history. So, for both America and Europe there was not a long period where things did not seem like art. For America, it was more a sprinkling of finding a sort of identity through the wreckage and for Europe it was more for a rebellion and change of heart after the war. I do not think it ever stopped not being art…

of industrialism and revolution. In response to this change in society, artists were more and more influenced to produce art that coursed intense emotion through the veins of the viewer’s body. Right before the 20th century, the period of Early Expressionism, art contained symbolism, where subjects…

January 19, 1839 and died on October 22, 1906. Unlike most artist Cezanne was very rich so it was easy for him to get his painting out due to the fact that he had all of the materials her had. He is considered by many as the inventor of modern expressionism. Cezanne became well-known and was adored by the new generation of painters. This period was also beset by troubling events. Cezanne’s death was caused due to his dedication for his work. He died of pneumonia because he decided to work in…

Eugéne Delacroix was born on April 26 in Charenton, France in the year of 1798. He lived for 65 years before he died on August 13, 1863. He didn’t grow up with a lot of money and his painting career never paid him a well enough. He also tended to try and push the boundaries in some of his paintings, more so in his religious pieces. He was a romanticism artist. The romanticism style was an emphasis on emotion and drama of the subject that was depicted in the painting. He didn’t start out in the…

The painting Number 11, 1949 by Jackson Pollock is one of Pollock’s paintings from his famous “drip period.” The painting is large but not huge, it is about 45 inches tall and 47.5 inches wide, so it is a little bigger than the size of an old TV. This painting does not depict anything in particular. It is an abstract painting, there are no figures present. Instead of containing figures, the painting contains forms. The forms in the painting are created by the many layers of different colored…

Jan Tschichold is from Leipzig Germany and is a typography and author. Born in 1902, Tschichold trained as a calligrapher and designer at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Production from the ages of 17 and 19 then began freelancing as a lettering artist and designer. He was hired at a printing firm to draw page layouts for the typesetters. While working there, he visited a Bauhaus exhibition that drew him into the new Modernist movement. A couple of years later, Tschichold joined…

Many consider more abstract art and realism to be very distinct and separate styles of. Artists that painted in more abstract forms wished to display their emotions and views on the world, in contrast to the Realists who displayed the physical world around them and everyday events as they were. What they achieve however, is not so different. Realism aids us in understanding what the world was truly like, and not only what those in charge thought, lived or wanted others to think and live.…

modern use of German Expressionism in films like INCEPTION. The major ethical questions raised in expressionist films intrigues me as well. Metropolis is just a fascinating piece of art and it is a great example of how Expressionist films use dark overtones and expressionist film style to create a film with massive ethical questions and implications. I believe this fascination with ethical questions comes from people’s desire to question the world around them. German expressionism actively…