1. Abstract Expressionism
Started Around 1940’s

2. Abstract Expressionism Facts
Where: Mostly in New York
What: Radical Direction of Art/ Break away from the norm
Importance: The Process over product
When: After The Great Depression – WPA – Created Career Path for Artists
In a famous letter to the New York Times (June 1943), Gottlieb and Rothko, with the assistance of Newman, wrote: “To us, art is an adventure into an unknown world of the imagination which is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing. We assert that the subject is critical.”

3. The Artists

4. Jackson Pollock – Jack the dripper

5. Nonobjective Art – No subject matter
First time canvas Was placed on the Floor to paint Instead of the easel Action Jackson

9. Mark Rothko – Color Field Painting

10. Simplified Color Block Large Scale Objective: To create a calming or Comforting effect

11. Rothko “I paint big to Intimate.”
Soft Edged Rectangles Glowing

12. Created a freeing experience for the viewer
You see want you want to see Relates to a personal Memory Experience of seeing Painting becomes more Personal

13. Williem de Kooning – Gestural Painting
Could never abandoned the human figure Gesture – Showing the artist hand, Expressive Line use, painting with passion

15. Helen Frankenthaler – Soak Stain

16. Luminescent, misty images

17. Contemporary Intuitive Painter Flora Bowley

18. Bowley Techniques
1. Listen to Music 2. Block out white space w/ dark colors 3. Use Words 4. Create Variation 5. Add Water

19. Things to Think about with Your Composition
Elements Line Shape Form Color Texture Space Variety
Principles Emphasis Movement Balance Uses Rhythm Repetition Pattern

20. Unity Color Remember you need a Dominant something for connection!
Shape
Texture
Line
Remember you need a Dominant something for connection!

21. Color Psychology