Summary Abstract Expressionism: artists and artwork (characteristics)

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

 Believed in the absolute individuality of the artist (in the tradition of Romanticism)
 Revolted against tradition and illusionistic imagery, no illusion of picture plane.



Jackson Pollock  European avant-garde
Number 3, work (Fauvism,
Tiger/shimmering Cubism, Dada,
substance Surrealism) and Aztec,
African and Native
oil on canvas American/ First
(Freud)

Bernett Newman  Existentialism: we
Pagan Void need to make sense of
the world
Oil on Canvas  They sought timeless
subject matter (Jung
archetypes) collective
unconscious

Mark Rothco  capture essence of
Orange and Yellow human emotion
 refusal to copy from
nature
Oil on canvas  emphasis on emotion
and responses