1. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM A presentation from Joy Velasco AP EURO Mr. Sink 1/18/2015

2. WHAT IS IT? ● Post WWII movement in the 1940s and 1950s ● came from America, developed in NYC ● 1st American art movement to gain int’l acclaim and make New York the center of the western art world -- not Paris this time! ● all about expressing one’s subconscious

3. “We agree only to disagree. ” - Writer Irvin Sandler’s view of the movement. It was the unofficial motto/rule of Abstract Expressionism. (like Fight Club, but more artsy)

4. CHARACTERISTICS ● takes inspo. from surrealism ● colorful ● spontaneity, chaos (but they were generally planned) ● big canvases, “all over” approach ● abstract depiction. it’s all in the name

5. Jackson Pollock, ‘No. 5, 1948”, 1948

6. ‘Sunday Afternoon’, Elaine Fried de Kooning, 1957

7. ‘Canticle’, Mark Tobey, 1954 Guess what materials he used!

8. Willem De Kooning, ‘Woman V’, 1952-53 and ‘Woman III”, 1953

9. Barnett Newman, “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue?” 1966 A later work, but still considered part of Abstract expressionism

10. ‘Australia’, David Smith, 1951