Examples of Brick Expressionism in the following topics:
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- The Amsterdam School movement is considered to be part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked to German Brick Expressionism.
- Buildings of the Amsterdam School are characterized by their use of bricks, rounded or organic appearance, relatively traditional massing, and the integration of an elaborate scheme of building elements inside and out such as decorative masonry, art glass, wrought ironwork, spires or "ladder" windows (with horizontal bars), and integrated architectural sculpture.
- The De Bijenkorf Store in the Hague by Piet Kramer of 1926 is considered to be the last example of "classic" Amsterdam School Expressionism.
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- One of the biggest contributing factors to this shift was the advent of Abstract Expressionism, a decidedly American movement that is often cited as the first American avant-garde.
- Visionary figures like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman epitomized Abstract Expressionism in New York, but a similar concern for Expressionism was present in the work of many important European artists in the aftermath of WWII.
- Unlike American Expressionism, which was more abstract, many European painters maintained the primacy of the figure in their work.
- Tachisme is often regarded as the closest European equivalent to American Abstract Expressionism, and can be characterized by spontaneous brushwork, drips and blobs of paint applied directly from a tube, and, occasionally, a scribbling reminiscent of calligraphy.
- 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.
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- Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement.
- Abstract expressionism has many stylistic similarities to the Russian artists of the early 20th century such as Wassily Kandinsky.
- Abstract expressionism expanded and developed the definitions and possibilities that artists had available in the creation of new works of art.
- Although Abstract expressionism spread quickly throughout the United States, the major centers of this style were New York and California.
- His works, such as The Liver is the Cock's Comb, The Betrothal II, and One Year the Milkweed, immediately prefigured abstract expressionism.
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- Popular in the 1940s and 1950s, Art Informel is often considered to be the European equivalent to American abstract expressionism.
- Popular in the 1940s and 1950s, it is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism, although there are stylistic differences (for example, abstract expressionism is often described as being more raw and aggressive than tachisme).
- Abstract expressionism was a school of painting in the United States that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s.
- Compare the European postwar movement of Art Informel to American abstract expressionism.
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- Neo-Expressionism is a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s.
- Related to American Lyrical Abstraction of the 60s and 70s, the Bay Area Figurative School of the 50s and 60s, the continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting, and precedents in Pop painting, Neo-Expressionism developed as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalist art of the 1970s.
- Hal Foster stated that Neo-Expressionism was complicit with the conservative cultural politics of the Reagan-Bush era in the U.S..
- Félix Guattari disregarded the "large promotional operations dubbed 'Neo-Expressionism' in Germany" as an example of a "fad that maintains itself by means of publicity" and as too easy of a way for him "to demonstrate that postmodernism is nothing but the last gasp of modernism. "
- Critique the controversies around Neo-Expressionism related to marketability, celebrity, feminism, and intellectualism.
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- German Expressionism refers to a number of related creative movements beginning before WWI and peaking in Berlin during the 1920s.
- Expressionism was a modernist movement, beginning with poetry and painting, that originated in Germany at the start of the 20th century.
- Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War and remained popular during the Weimar Republic, particularly in Berlin.
- The twisted body shapes and expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.
- Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 – 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early Expressionism.
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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.
- The focus of attention in the contemporary art world began to shift from Paris to New York after World War II and the development of American Abstract Expressionism.
- An important distinction between Color Field painting and abstract expressionism is the paint handling.
- However, Color Field painting has proven to be both sensual and deeply expressive, albeit in a different way from gestural abstract expressionism.
- Differentiate Color Field painting from other contemporary abstract art such as Abstract Expressionism
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- Due to the scarcity of wood, the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were sun-baked mud brick and limestone.
- After the end of the Early Dynastic Period, stone became used in tombs and temples, while bricks were used even for royal palaces, fortresses, and the walls of temple precincts.
- Fortunately, the dry, hot climate of Egypt preserved some mud brick structures.
- Large tombs of pharaohs at Abydos and Naqada, in addition to cemeteries at Saqqara and Helwan near Memphis, reveal structures built largely of wood and mud bricks, with some small use of stone for walls and floors.
- Large tombs of pharaohs at Abydos and Naqada, in addition to cemeteries at Saqqara and Helwan near Memphis, reveal structures built largely of wood and mud bricks, with some small use of stone for walls and floors.
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- 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.
- Painters, sculptors, and printmakers created art that was termed Action painting, Fluxus, Color Field painting, Hard-edge painting, Pop art, Minimal Art and Lyrical Abstraction, among other styles and movements associated with abstract expressionism.
- 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.
- Jackson Pollack is known for his techniques in action painting, a style of abstract expressionism in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.
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- Remains of Han Dynasty architecture include ruins of brick and rammed earth walls, rammed earth platforms, and funerary stone pillar-gates.
- Architecture from the Han Dynasty that has survived until today include ruins of brick and rammed earth walls (including above-ground city walls and underground tomb walls), rammed earth platforms for terraced altars and halls, funerary stone or brick pillar-gates, and scattered ceramic roof tiles that once adorned timber halls.
- Han walls of frontier towns and forts in Inner Mongolia were typically constructed with stamped clay bricks instead of rammed earth.
- Thatched or tiled roofs were supported by wooden pillars, since the addition of brick, rammed earth, or mud walls of these halls did not actually support the roof.
- Valuable clues about Han architecture can be found in Han artwork of ceramic models, paintings, and carved or stamped bricks discovered in tombs and other sites.