Expressionism

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956). Who was Jackson Pollock? Was he an artist? Was he insane? Was he a drunk? No matter how you see him, he was a brilliant artist with a multitude of problems. One of his problems was with people and that made him socially awkward. The relationships he did have with people were very unhealthy. In the film, Pollack (2000), a common theme is Codependency. Codependency is a learned behavior that is usually passed down from generation to generation. It’s an emotional and…

Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists including Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner and Dorothea Rockburne turned to site-specific, drawing-based installations in order to disengage aesthetic experience from the autonomous object, foregrounding the institution as its constitutive framework. Curiously, it appears to have escaped definition in reductive, purely material terms by even the most vociferous advocates of medium-specificity.4 Rather than positing an adherence to the ‘medium’ of drawing…

Jackson Pollock: There Were Seven In 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…

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…

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 land…

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…

Adolph Fredrick Reinhardt was an American abstract artist, writer, critic and educator. He studied art history under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York (1931–35), and painting with Carl Holty and Francis Criss at the American Artists School (1936–37). He also studied at the National Academy of Design with Karl Anderson in 1936, worked for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (1936–39), and was a member (1937–47) of the American Abstract Artists group. Reinhardt…

I remember reading in the article about German Expressionism that “shapes are distorted and exaggerated to reflect emotional states”, also that often times characters “move in jerky or slow sinuous patterns” (471). I saw this happening in the scene right after Neo takes the red pill and he stares into the…

After World War I, the Dada movement arose out of Switzerland from the years 1916-1924. It was heavily influenced by various other movements including Cubism, Expressionism, and Futurism. The movement was portrayed through many different outlets including photography, literature, sculptures, and of course paintings. This movement was known for how it made fun of or mocked modern common aesthetic. It contrasted the ideas of materialism, and how “nationalistic attitudes” turned out to be a heavy…

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…