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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


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