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-Exposure to and assimilation of European Modernism
- The crisis of war and its aftermath
- current intellectual trends
--Existentialism
--Research of Carl Jung |
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| The First Generation of Abstract Expressionism |
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Flourished between 1943 and the mid-50's
The movement effectively shifted the art world's focus from Europe (specifically Paris) to New York in the postwar years. The paintings were seen widely in traveling exhibitions and through publications.
For Abstract Expressionists, the authenticity or value of a work lay in its directness and immediacy of expression.
A painting is meant to be a revelation of the artist's authentic identity. |
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| Peggy Guggenheim in her gallery, "Art of This Century" |
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Garden in Sochi
Arshile Gorky
1943 |
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The Liver is the Cock's Comb
Arshile Gorky
1944 |
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Landscape
Hans Hofmann
1941
Oil on Canvas
"The German Expressionist Hans Hofmann became the most influential teacher of modern Art in the United States: his impact reached both artists and critics." |
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The gesture, the artist's "signature", is evidence of the actual process of the work's creation.
It is in reference to this aspect of the work that critic Harold Rosenberg coined the term "action painting". |
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The Golden Wall
Hans Hofmann
1961
Oil on Canvas |
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Photograph of Jackson Pollock Painting
Hans Namuth
1950 |
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The Seasons
Lee Krasner
1957 |
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Mountains and the Sea
Helen Frankenthaler
1952 |
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Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
Jackson Pollock
1950 |
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Woman I
Willem de Kooning
1950-1952
"De Kooning developed his own version of a highly charged, gestural, style alternating between abstract work and powerful figurative images." |
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Another path lay in the expressive potential of color.
Color field painters created art based on simplified, large-format, color dominated fields. |
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Orange, Yellow, Red
Mark Rothko
1956 |
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Onement 1
Barnett Newman
1948 |
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Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Barnett Newman
1950-1551 |
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Here II
Barnett Newman
1965
Bronze |
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Northwest, North triptych and Northeast Wall Panels
Rothko Chapel Interior (Houston)
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Northwest, North triptych and Northeast Wall Panels
Rothko Chapel Interior (Houston)
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