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Abstract ExpressionismThe Rise of American Art
The World of AbEx
Post WWII
Spiritual and Cerebral
Painter as Celebrity
Male-Centric Movement
Theory
Greenberg Rosenberg
Materials as primary
Art should be only what its medium allows
“Action” Painting
Art should embrace theater
The Cold WarThe Battle Against Social Realism
AbEx is Anti-Communism and Fascism
Mukhina, The Worker and the Collective Farm Worker, Soviet Pavilion, Paris Exposition, 1937
Pollock“Jack the Dripper”“I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.””There is no
accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVE-WQBcYQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otBdXcWOELY
Pollock, Number 31
Number 31“Pollock’s talent is volcanic. It has fire. It is unpredictable. It is undisciplined…It is lavish, explosive, untidy…
Number 1-Lavender MistWhat we need is more young men who paint from inner compulsion without an ear to what the critic or the spectator may feel—painters who will risk spoiling a canvas to say something in their own way.”---Greenberg
Krasner and Pollock“When I took Jackson to see Hoffmann, he said well your work is good, but you don’t work from nature. Jackson said, ‘I am nature.’.”--Krasner
Krasner, Celebration
DeKooning: “The Slipping Glimpser”
Excavation
Woman I
Totem of Womanhood? Vagina Dentata?
Rothko, Untitled
Color-Field Painting
“My works are about tragedy, ecstasy and doom.”
“The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them, and if you are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point.”
Untitled
Rothko ChapelDeMenil Collection, Houston
Lavender Mist
Art Response #4
Identify the work (artist, title, time period) and then discuss two main points you have learned in reference to it and why it fits into the time period. Then state why the work is relevant to the study of art history. Your answers must be detailed and use proper essay format.