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"Abstract Expressionism" is a vague term which refers to a general movement of largely non-representative painting, which flourished in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. The movement was neither wholly abstract nor expressionist and encompassed several quite different styles.
What years did the Abstract Expressionism movement take place? 1947-1965
ARTISTS
Lee Krasner (1908-84)
-wife of Jackson Pollock
Franz Kline (1910-62)
-known for his large black and white sketches/paintings
-painted large canvas that were mostly attached to walls
-used cheap commercial paints
Hans Hoffman
-influenced Jackson Pollock
Piet Mondrian
-know for his paintings of squares and rectangles using mostly primary colors with white backgrounds
Ad Reinhart
-colour field artist
Willem De Kooning
-born in Holland/Amsterdam
Robert Motherwell (1915-91)
-both an abstract expressionism and colour field artist
Mark Rothko (1903-70)
-born in Russia
-colour field artist
-know for his large paintings of floating color shapes with loose unlined edges.
-the leader in the Colour Field art movement.
Clyfford Still (1904-80)
-colour field artist
Barnett Newman (1905-70)
-colour field artist
Yves Kline
-colour field artist
Know for his painting “Blue Monochromatic”
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
-born in German
-part of Bauhaus
-came to Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC in 1933
-Professor at Yale University
-“Homage to the Square” series is his most famous works of art.
Paul Jackson Pollock
-January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956
-an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy.
-Pollock died at the age of 44 in a car accident. In December 1956, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967. More recently, in 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London.
-Pollock himself began employing his splash/drip method in 1947, partly as a result of the surrealists' experience, and also (reportedly) after seeing how Navajo Indians in New Mexico made their sand paintings by sprinkling earth onto the ground to form intricate patterns.
-Peggy Guggenheim, one of Pollock's most important patrons helped Pollock, helped Pollock rise to fame.
Action Painting
Impulsive abstract painting technique during which paint is energetically splashed, or dribbled onto a canvas, usually placed face-up on the floor.It is principally associated with The New York School of American Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s and 1950s, and with the painter Jackson Pollock (1912-56), dubbed "Jack the Dripper".
What years did the Abstract Expressionism movement take place? 1947-1965
ARTISTS
Lee Krasner (1908-84)
-wife of Jackson Pollock
Franz Kline (1910-62)
-known for his large black and white sketches/paintings
-painted large canvas that were mostly attached to walls
-used cheap commercial paints
Hans Hoffman
-influenced Jackson Pollock
Piet Mondrian
-know for his paintings of squares and rectangles using mostly primary colors with white backgrounds
Ad Reinhart
-colour field artist
Willem De Kooning
-born in Holland/Amsterdam
Robert Motherwell (1915-91)
-both an abstract expressionism and colour field artist
Mark Rothko (1903-70)
-born in Russia
-colour field artist
-know for his large paintings of floating color shapes with loose unlined edges.
-the leader in the Colour Field art movement.
Clyfford Still (1904-80)
-colour field artist
Barnett Newman (1905-70)
-colour field artist
Yves Kline
-colour field artist
Know for his painting “Blue Monochromatic”
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
-born in German
-part of Bauhaus
-came to Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC in 1933
-Professor at Yale University
-“Homage to the Square” series is his most famous works of art.
Paul Jackson Pollock
-January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956
-an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy.
-Pollock died at the age of 44 in a car accident. In December 1956, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967. More recently, in 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London.
-Pollock himself began employing his splash/drip method in 1947, partly as a result of the surrealists' experience, and also (reportedly) after seeing how Navajo Indians in New Mexico made their sand paintings by sprinkling earth onto the ground to form intricate patterns.
-Peggy Guggenheim, one of Pollock's most important patrons helped Pollock, helped Pollock rise to fame.
Action Painting
Impulsive abstract painting technique during which paint is energetically splashed, or dribbled onto a canvas, usually placed face-up on the floor.It is principally associated with The New York School of American Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s and 1950s, and with the painter Jackson Pollock (1912-56), dubbed "Jack the Dripper".
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