Abstract Expressionism
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abstract expressionism
It was a full 170 years after Americans had their political revolution that they won an aesthetic revolution. American art to get rid of its inhibiting mechanisms- provincialism, over-dependence on European sources, and an indifferent public- and liberate itself into a quality and expressive force equal to, or exceeding that of art produced anywhere within the period. Few would argue that the painting and sculpture that emerged from the so-called New York School in the mid 1940s was the foremost artistic phenomenon of its time and was labeled as the Abstract Expressionist movement. Abstract expressionism was a reaction to social realism, surrealism, and primitive art in the 1940s; this is a turning point in American art history because it caused the rest of the art world to recognize New York as the new center of innovation.
The movement synthesized three other previous art forms. Social Realists "socially grounded" activist art of the 1930s responded to the disaster of the economy in America and the rise of fascism abroad by working in socially conscience styles. "This art form was contaminated by the cliches of the Stalinist popular front" (American Visions p. 469). Abstract expressionists responded to these art forms by deriving their new style from personal experience and by embodying this in contemporary forms, instead of getting their ideas from politics. The influence of Surrealism in The Abstract Expressionist Movement was its stress on the power of the unconscience as the most fertile ground of imagery. The expressionists valued the Surrealist style because it revealed the action of the dreaming mind and valued the accidental and the involuntary: "It welcomed the image that rose unbidden from a chaos of marks" (Modern Art 3rd Ed, p. 265). It also valued the American surrealists' sense of mission. Their belief that art and life was inseparable heartened American artists who felt marginal, ignored by other Americans and felt provincial with respect to Paris. The Abstract Expressionists also used "primitive" art as a way of cultural escape. They looked at tribal artifacts in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and believed it was disclosing one of the main buried roots of modernism. Cave paintings especially influenced many Abstract expressionists such as Pollock and Rothko. Aspects of cave...
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... him to literally be in the painting, to move about within it and thus give equal emphasis to all parts.
Although anticipated in Impressionism, this- the so-called "holistic" composition- was something new in modern art.
The emergence of the Abstract Expressionist in America had a profound effect on the rest of the art world because it relocated the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Many factors caused America to be the new center of Creativity. Political and economical causes such as the Great Depression and world war II, as well as former artistic genres such as Surrealism, Social Realism, and primitive American art influenced the Abstract Expressionist new style.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that abstract expressionism was a reaction to social realism, surrealism, and primitive art in the 1940s.
- Analyzes how the abstract expressionist movement synthesized three previous art forms: social realists, surrealism, and cave paintings.
- Explains that the abstract expressionist movement was influential because it was the first time that american artists were doing something new and different from europe.
- Explains that abstract expressionism was a reaction to social realism, surrealism, and primitive art in the 1940s.
- Analyzes how the abstract expressionist movement synthesized three previous art forms: social realists, surrealism, and cave paintings.
- Explains that the abstract expressionist movement was influential because it was the first time that american artists were doing something new and different from europe.
- Explains that the abstract expressionists shared a common experience, but they did not think of themselves as individuals with common ideals. jackson pollock's paintings made the first and most emphatic public expression of the new mood
- Analyzes how the emergence of abstract expressionist in america had a profound effect on the rest of the art world because it relocated the center of art from paris to new york.
- Cites hunter, sam, and jacobs, john. modern art, 3rd edition. the vendome press, new york, 1992. hughes, robert. american visions.
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- Analyzes barnett newman's broken obelisk, which is a four-sided tapering monument from ancient egypt. the severed, upended form suggests that there is nothing to celebrate.
- Explains that the sculpture's base is a pyramid, visually similar to the ones in giza, egypt, and rests on an inverted obelisk precariously balancing on it.
1423 wordsRead More - Analysis Of Western Suppression Of Passionsanalytical essayThis time was filled with a great amount of fear as well as optimism. However, like Friedrich Nietzsche would agree, the West has lost its passion. People became increasingly focused on starting a democracy that they lost their love of their passions. Artists, like Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and Theodore Robinson, were the impressionists of the 11th century in America ("American Art: History of Fine Arts in America" 4). These artists were consumed with their art and other artists’ art, in addition to the overall cultural growth in the nation. As the age of art was flourishing in the States, leisure activities often included going to the theatre and opera. Moreover, familial relationships began to lose importance as more and more people had hired help to assist with the raising of children as well as sending children off the boarding school. These Westerners let other people raise their children so that they could have more time for work and the few leisure and artful activities they enjoyed. As seen in the beginning of the United States, it is clear to see how the present state of American follows Nietzsche’s theory of Western oppression of
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how friedrich nietzsche testified that the western world had lost its desire to strive for the passions in each person's life.
- Analyzes how the early western society was founded on the passion of the colonists moving to this country to free themselves from oppression and start a new life.
- Analyzes how nietzsche's theory of the critic would be the most accurate representation in modern america. westerners are focused on themselves and advancing their careers and are unwilling to take the time to look at art if they are unable to draw.
- Analyzes how friedrich nietzsche testified that the western world had lost its desire to strive for the passions in each person's life.
- Analyzes how the early western society was founded on the passion of the colonists moving to this country to free themselves from oppression and start a new life.
- Analyzes how nietzsche's theory of the critic would be the most accurate representation in modern america. westerners are focused on themselves and advancing their careers and are unwilling to take the time to look at art if they are unable to draw.
- Opines that nietzsche's ideas transfer well into the future. the aesthetic hearer needs to crush the theoretical man and reestablish the society in a positive and artistic way.
- Explains that an overman is someone who is willing to risk all for the sake of enhancement of humanity.
- Analyzes nietzsche's idea of "the overman", which would reshape the western world and bring to it a new life that would more closely resemble an idealistic world where people follow, not suppress, their passions.
- Analyzes how friedrich nietzsche affirmed that the western world had lost its desire to go all-out for the passions in each person's life.
1040 wordsRead More - Impressionism bridge between past and futureanalytical essay...oes of the 19th century basked in their social deviancy. They may not have been as revolutionary as they would have like to believe yet still managed to alter the art world and place it on a new path for future artists. Even though the group itself began to disband in the 1880s as Neo and Post-Impressionism were evolving, the artists maintained their radical social position into the 1900s (Handbook 16). Although brief in time, the Impressionists would become like a bridge in a Monet painting connecting the past to the future in art history.
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- Describes how manet led artists like monet, degas, renoir, pisarro, sisley, and cezanne in a new artistic direction.
- Analyzes how napoleon iii's reign was marked by press subjugation and political assimilation, regulating bread prices and endorsing industrial and commercial growth in france to follow the rest of europe.
- Explains impressionism's six essential, if not strict, characters: classical and religious scenes were abhorred, sketchiness and spontaneity, pure, vibrant colours, concentration, lack of emotions, visible brushstrokes, etc.
- Describes how manet led artists like monet, degas, renoir, pisarro, sisley, and cezanne in a new artistic direction.
- Analyzes how napoleon iii's reign was marked by press subjugation and political assimilation, regulating bread prices and endorsing industrial and commercial growth in france to follow the rest of europe.
- Explains impressionism's six essential, if not strict, characters: classical and religious scenes were abhorred, sketchiness and spontaneity, pure, vibrant colours, concentration, lack of emotions, visible brushstrokes, etc.
- Describes honour, hugh, and john fleming's a world of art hisory.
- Presents lewis, anne-marie, "realism and impressionism". lecture to infa 2900, york university, toronto.
- Describes how the american civil war led to the proclamation of universal suffrage and the abolition of slavery.
- Explains how the impressionists' innovations grew out of the paintings of courbet, corot, and constable. their greatest legacy to art history was what developed after it.
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