Examples of Abstract Expressionist in the following topics:
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- The New York School (which is most often associated with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
- The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular: action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the New York art world's vanguard circle.
- The New York School, which fostered the development of the abstract expressionist style of the 1950s was documented through a series of artists' committee invitational exhibitions commencing with the Ninth Street Art Exhibition in 1951 and followed by consecutive exhibitions through 1957.
- The Ninth Street Art exhibition was not only a showing of a remarkable amount of work from leading abstract expressionists and notable New York artists, it was also the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde.
- Still was one of the leading figures of the New York School of abstract expressionism.
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- During the postwar period, many sculptors made work in the prevalent styles of the time: Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Pop Art.
- Similar to Abstract Expressionist painting, sculptural work from the movement was greatly influenced by surrealism and its emphasis on spontaneous or subconscious creation.
- Abstract Expressionist sculpture, like painting from the movement, was more interested in process than product, which can make it difficult to visually distinguish works by aesthetics alone, it is important to take into account what the artist has to say about their process.
- We can see this abstraction in such works as "Plug" by Oldenburg.
- Evaluate how sculpture from 1945-1970 was influenced by abstract expressionism, minimalism, and pop art.
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- Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement.
- Abstract expressionism is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus, and Synthetic Cubism.
- Although it is true that spontaneity or the impression of spontaneity characterized many of the abstract expressionists' works, in reality most of these paintings involved careful planning, especially since their large size demanded it.
- In many instances, abstract art implied expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, the unconscious, and the mind.
- Abstract expressionist paintings share certain characteristics, including the use of large canvases, an "all-over" approach, in which the whole canvas is treated with equal importance (as opposed to the center being of more interest than the edges).
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- Postwar European artists, unlike American Abstract Expressionists, grappled with the isolated experience of the individual figure.
- Unlike American Expressionism, which was more abstract, many European painters maintained the primacy of the figure in their work.
- Art Informel, a movement closely related to Tachisme, rejected the geometric, hard-edge style of American abstraction in favor of a more intuitive form of expression.
- Serge Poliakoff painted in the French tachisme style of Art Informel, an abstract movement which is often considered to be the European counterpart to Abstract Expressionism.
- This painting by Bacon exemplifies a figurative portrayal of existential and individual angst that European Expressionists typically display in their work.
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- Embracing clean linearity and open composition, Post-Painterly Abstraction evolved in reaction to Abstract Expressionism in the 50s and 60s.
- This was a movement in painting that followed and evolved in reaction to the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s.
- Greenberg perceived that this new style of painting favored openness and clarity as opposed to the dense, painterly surfaces of Abstract Expressionism.
- While the Abstract Expressionists were characterized by gestural abstraction and were therefore still concerned with some degree of representation, Greenberg suggested that the formal elements of Post-Painterly Abstraction attained a level of "purity" that revealed the truthfulness of the canvas and the reality of the canvas's two-dimensional space, or flatness.
- His shaped canvases of the 1960s revolutionized abstract painting.
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- Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists.
- Encompassing several decades from the mid-20th century through the early 21st century, the history of Color Field painting can be separated into three separate but related generations of painters, commonly grouped into abstract expressionism, post-painterly abstraction, and lyrical abstraction.
- During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Clement Greenberg was the first art critic to suggest and identify a dichotomy between differing tendencies within the Abstract Expressionist canon—especially between Action Painting and what Greenberg termed "Post-Painterly Abstraction" (today known as Color Field).
- His shaped canvases of the 1960s revolutionized abstract painting.
- Differentiate Color Field painting from other contemporary abstract art such as Abstract Expressionism
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- The New York School was an informal group of American abstract painters and other artists active in the 1950s and 1960s.
- It represented, and is often synonymous with, the art movement of Abstract Expressionism, such as the work of Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning.
- A school of painting that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s, Abstract Expressionism is characterized by the view that art is non-representational and chiefly improvisational.
- Abstract Expressionist paintings share certain characteristics, including the use of large canvases, and an "all-over" approach whereby the whole canvas is treated with equal importance (as opposed to the center being of more interest than the edges).
- The new Bebop and cool jazz musicians in the 1940s and 1950s (such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Gerry Mulligan) coincided with the New York School and abstract expressionism.
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- During the 1950s and 1960s, forms of Geometric expression including Hard-edge painting and Frank Stella's work in Geometric abstraction emerged as reaction against the subjectivism of Abstract expressionism.
- By the early 1960s Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.
- It's also seen as a continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting and precedents in Pop painting.
- Neo-Expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects like the human body in a rough and violently emotional way using vivid colors and banal color harmonies.
- Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art by the early 1960s, and is thought to be a precursor to the postmodern movement.
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- Neo-Expressionists sought to portray recognizable subjects in rough and violently emotional ways using vivid colors and color schemes.
- Neo-Expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (though sometimes an abstracted version), in rough and violently emotional ways using vivid colors and color harmonies.
- Overtly inspired by so-called German Expressionist painters such as Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other expressionist artists such as James Ensor and Edvard Munch, Neo-Expressionists were sometimes called Neue Wilden ("The new wild ones'").
- Baselitz's style is interpreted as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective it is seen as postmodern.
- Elizabeth Murray is an example of a Neo-Expressionist painter who was marginalized in the movement due to her gender.
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- Abstract art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are related terms that indicate a departure from reality in the depiction of imagery in art.
- A good example are the expressionists of the early 20th century, who aimed to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect.
- Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter, printmaker, and art theorist, is one of the most famous 20th century artists and is generally considered the first important painter of modern abstract art.
- He posited that pure abstraction could express pure spirituality.
- Kandinsky is recognized as the father of modern abstract art in the 20th century.