Abstract Expressionism

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Abstract Expressionism

• An artistic movement in the 1950s the strove to
  make New York City
• the worlds art center

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Traits of Abstract Expressionism

• Emotional intensity
• No figures, anti-representational
• Chaotic, more interested in energy movement than
  in a story
• Pointed to/at the life of the mind, both the
  known spirit and the unconscious.
• Came on the heels of social realism A.E. could
  pass under the radar of McCarthyism

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What painters influenced A.E.?

• Picasso

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Dadaism

• Max Ernst

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Dadaist Poets

• Tristan Tszara

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Whos the most famous A.E. painter?

• Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock

• Saw paint as a material whose properties were
  enough in and of itself
• Used any materials at hand
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  related

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Paul Klee
Southern Tunisian Gardens (1919)
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Child-like qualities in color and subject
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Castle and Sun
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Wassily Kandinsky

• Devoted to inner life
• Saw color as expressing more of a story than the
  representational figures
• Cultivated dream-like compositions

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Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula
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Kandinskys Farbstudie
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Mark Rothko
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• Why is Rothko a great painter to share with
  people from Atlantic County?

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Agnes Martin
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Martin

• Was involved in the New York City art scene but
  found it too cliquish and backbiting
• Became a virtual hermit
• Moved to New Mexico
• Reproduced industrial shapes with barely
  perceptible imperfections

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Ekphrastic work

• Can ask students to reflect on paintings or
  sculptures, then write poems
• Can possibly ask students to paint
• Can have them combine letters and painting (more
  in your book Third Mind)