Art: Abstract Expressionism Flashcards
What is Abstract expressionism
convey attitudes and emotions through non-traditional and usually non-representational means.
What is action painting
Action Painting is predicated on the idea that the creative process involves a dialogue between the artist and the canvas.
Who influence the abstract expressionist movement?
Jackson Pollock
Focuses on black and white abstraction and japanese calling
Franz Klein
What is color field painting?
devise a modern, mythic art. Seeking to connect with the primordial emotions locked in ancient myths, rather than the symbols themselves, they sought a new style that would do away with any suggestion of illustration.
Soft rectangular forms on a stained field of color heavily influeved by mitolohiya and philosophy
Mark Rothko
developed her own distinct approach to the style. She invented the “soak-stain” technique, in which she poured turpentine-thinned paint onto canvas, producing luminous color washes that appeared to merge with the canvas and deny any hint of three-dimensional illusionism.
Helen Frankenthaler
birthed in the United Kingdom in the 1950s amidst a postwar socio-political climate where artists turned toward celebrating commonplace objects and elevating the everyday to the level of fine art.
Pop art
produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. His artwork was considered to be “disruptive”.
Roy Lichtenstein
Optical art
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He is best known for his grid-like paintings and sculptures of the 1960s onwards
Victor Vasarely
He was an artist involved in various types of artwork, such as painting, sculpture, plastic, and caricature. He was best known for using Abstract Geometry as his style.
Omar Rayo
characterized by the use of geometric shapes, lines, and patterns to create optical illusions and the perception of movement or depth in two-dimensional artworks.
Bridget Riley
What is conceptual art
prizes ideas (concepts) over the aesthetic and commercial properties of artworks. A blend of various tendencies rather than a tight, unified, movement
He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century,
Marcel Duchamp
