Review Of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Expressionism Movement

Jackson Pollock developed his unique style of ‘action painting’ during the 1940s - 1950s and belonged to a group of artists soon to be known as the abstract expressionists (Smith 2010). Pollock and his colleagues rejected representational art as being too unemotional for the times. This was a time that brought the end of World War II along with the invention and explosion of the atom bomb. The abstract expressionists broke with the conventional art of the time and through new methods of expressing themselves were able to bring prominence in the art world to America and placed New York in the position of being a leader in the avant-garde (Smith 2010).

By the mid 1940s Pollock was painting in a new and completely abstract manner; he removed the art canvas from the easel, placed it on the floor, and began using a drip and splatter technique that earned him the moniker ‘Jack the Dripper’ (Pollock 2002). With this style Pollock would take art to a completely new level by removing recognizable objects from the canvas, instead displaying the basic elements through raw, unmitigated emotion in its truest form (Smith 2010).

Pollock’s art encompassed the entire canvas. As he was once quoted saying , “On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting this way I can walk around in it, work from the four sides and be ‘in’ the painting “ (Pollock1947). Jackson Pollock broke the ice for all of the other abstract expressionists who followed and he would be known as the most important figure in one of the most important artistic movements of the century (Pollock 2002).

Impressionist Art Movement

Impressionism began in France during the 1860s and was lead by a group soon to be known as t...

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (c. 1861).The Lake. [Painting] Frick Collection, NY: amica.davidrumsey.com, Web. 07 March 2012. http://amica.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search/what/oil%20on%20canvas%20%28lined%29?q=AMICOID=TFC_.19061025%20LIMIT:AMICO~1~1&sort=INITIALSORT_CRN,OCS,AMICOID

Peter Paul Rubens. (c. 1618). The Alliance of Earth and Water (The River Scheldt and Antwerp). [Painting] Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: Retrieved from http://www.artlex.com/

Romanticism. (1999-2007). Web. 07 March 2012. http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/romanticism.htm

The baroque era. (n.d.). Web. 07 March 2012. http://www.erasofelegance.com/history/baroque.html

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