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    Abstract

    EXPRESSIONISM
    Exploring art with deeper meanings and
    the artists behind them. Art by: Arshile Gorky

    Group 7 ♡
    WHAT IS ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM?
    Abstract expressionism is the term applied to new

    forms of abstract art developed by American

    painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and

    Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and 1950s.


    WHAT IS ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM?
    In 1940s and 1950s New York, a new art movement started after

    the 2nd World War, emerging in which artists began exploring

    expression of emotions and feeling through abstract, gestural

    mark-making and imposing colour fields. The Abstract

    Expressionists were deeply influenced by the idea of exploring

    the unconscious which reigned in Surrealism.


    The 2 TYPES OF
    01 Action Painting 02 Colorfield Painting
    Involves with interacting with the
    canvas physically.The techniques Colorfield Painting didn’t
    for interacting with the canvas emphasize the gesture of
    were varied: dripping the paint on the artist; instead it was
    the canvas, pouring the paint
    through a hole in a paint can, or the
    color that created the
    “all over” technique by which the painting.
    canvas was completely covered
    with paint.
    The
    ARTISTS Art By: Janet Sobel
    The ARTIST Jackson Pollock (born January 28, 1912, Cody, Wyoming, U.S.—
    died August 11, 1956, East Hampton, New York) was an
    American painter who was a leading exponent of Abstract
    Expressionism, an art movement characterized by the free-
    associative gestures in paint often called “action painting.”
    During his lifetime he received widespread publicity and
    serious recognition for the radical poured, or “drip,” technique
    he used to create his major works. Among his contemporaries,
    he was respected for his deeply personal and totally
    Jackson Pollock uncompromising commitment to the art of painting.
    The ARTWORK
    Number 1 (Lavender Mist), 1950

    It embodies the artistic breakthrough

    Pollock reached between 1947 and

    1950. It was painted in an old barn-

    turned-studio next to a small house on

    the East End of Long Island, where

    Pollock lived and worked from 1945 .


    The ARTIST
    Mark Rothko (born September 25, 1903 - Dvinsk, Russian
    Empire
    Died: February 25, 1970 - New York, New York) A prominent
    figure among the New York School painters, Mark Rothko
    moved through many artistic styles until reaching his signature
    1950s motif of soft, rectangular forms floating on a stained
    field of color. Heavily influenced by mythology and philosophy,
    he was insistent that his art was filled with content, and
    brimming with ideas.
    Mark Rothko
    The ARTWORK
    Orange and Yellow. 1956
    Orange and Yellow reflects Mark Rothko’s
    mature style, in which two or three rectangles
    are set within a background that surrounds
    them all, but divides them gently from one
    another. The edges of the rectangles are
    never distinct, avoiding an optical break and
    allowing viewers’ eyes to move quietly from
    other area to another in a contemplative way.
    TheCONCLUSION
    Abstract Expressionism emphasizes free, spontaneous,
    and personal emotional expression, and they exercise
    considerable freedom of technique and execution to
    attain this goal, with a particular emphasis laid on the
    exploitation of the variable physical character of paint
    to evoke expressive qualities.
    Thank
    you

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