Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Art History Research: Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism: 1945-1960
Characteristics:

  • emphasis on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation 
  • has an image of being rebellious, anarhic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, rather nihilistic 
  • implies expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, the unconscious and the mind 



Artists of the Era
Wassily Kandinsky:
The White Dot
1923


Picture With an Archer
1909

Willem de Kooning:
Woman IV
1953


An Abstract Painting
1949

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