ARTS 150 1st Edition Lecture 28 Outline of Current Lecture I Abstract Expressionism Current Lecture Abstract expressionism began in NYC o Result of historical circumstances influencing the artists psyche 1941 Pearl Harbor and US enter WWII 1944 Hitler and WWII come to an end US rises to economic power 1945 Pledge of Allegiance instituted into schools 1945 Beginning of the Cold War 1944 women obtain credit cars feminist movement Walker Evans Subway Portrait o Part of series o Notion of subway was a prison George Tooker Subway o Public space evolved into prison Clement Greenberg o Praised art that was nonrepresentational o Only expression of new forms o Cant possess reality or figural sence o Art Is non referential o Painting should be flat or 2D o Idea of furity paiting Hans Hoffman o Made the bridge to Abstract expressionsm Hans Hoffman Table with Teakettle Green Vase Red Flowers 1936 Hoffman The Gate o Surface painitng emphasizing structure o Combined vibrant colors o Cubist filtered approach o Push and pull of colors visual movement Gorky Arshile The Artist and his Mother 1929 Gorky ORGANZIATION 1933 Gorky The Liver is the Cock s Comb 1944 o Represents wild and dead landcape These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Met Breton author of surrealism Abstract Expressionism o 2 strains Action painting ie Jackson Kooning kline Krasner Tobey Spontaneous gesture inacted on canvas Colorfield Painting Mark Rothko Barnett Newmann Clyford Stll Adolph Gotlieb Robert Motherwell Unified color or color space Adolph Gottlieb Eyes of Oedipus 1945 o Greek mythology in abstract form o Ideograms 2D forms Mark Rothko Sacrifice of Iphigenia 1942 Rothko Untitled 1949 o Forms began to be floating colored shapes with loos undefined edges o Creating luminous effect o Reverting to stable geometries of cubism Willem de Kooning Woman I 1950 Woman as sex symbol
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