Post-war Abstract
● Expressive shapes
● By 1940 about 56 million people had died in relation to the war
● Huge catastrophic event
● Many countries were affected
● Point to be proven
● How democracy wins
● Many people had no choice
● German intellectual
● People were silent
● Especially in germany
● Added a sense of shame
● Remember walking through the rubble
● Werner Bischof
● How can this be normal?
● A man walks through the destroyed city looking for food - 1945
● Post traumatic stress disorder
● We can control nothing more than we can exist
● I think, therefore, i am
● Bomb damage in London during the second world war
● The blitz
● German word for lighting
● 40,000 people died
● Mass destruction
● European theater of england
● Fight against fascism
● No one is safe
● No one can escape the horrors of war
● Abstract forms
● Surrealism
● Paul klee
● Shapes opposed to show the actual figure
● Not photographic
● Reducing it down to essential forms and shapes
● Endless symbolism
● A Lot of artist was force to fight so art had to pause
● Post war art
● New Harmony
● Created works of art that couldn't be categorized
● Suggest motion
● Exploring colors
● Geometric form
● Outburst of fear
● A year before he died
, ● His sickness but also the sickness of the world
● Unknowable
● Personally expressive
● Like ancient greek art
● People are actively dying
● Images of dying soldiers, stories
● Emotion
● A new expression
● Large movement after the war
● The paint looks cracked
● Looks like something that is decaying
● Spatial concept
● Lucio fontana
● Spacalism
● Idea was exploring space
● Rejecting traditional painting
● Sand
● Really thick oil paint
● Coals poked into the canvas
● What's real and what's not
● Nicholas de stael
● People can see different things which is personally decided when looking at abstract art
● City square
● Mainly metal sculptures
● Alberto giacometti
● Francis bacon
● Head I
● Unfit for active war time
● Work in the rescue service
● Saw suffering
● Reference to changing
● Karel appel
● Hip, hip, hoorah
● Childlike style
● Children see the world naively
● A war in a positive way
● Artist interested in exploring sketches of mentally ill people
● Guati
● Challenge to the mid
● Performances were dramatic
● Unbeatable match
● Abstract is open ended
● I live in fear
● Save his family from getting killed
● Expressive shapes
● By 1940 about 56 million people had died in relation to the war
● Huge catastrophic event
● Many countries were affected
● Point to be proven
● How democracy wins
● Many people had no choice
● German intellectual
● People were silent
● Especially in germany
● Added a sense of shame
● Remember walking through the rubble
● Werner Bischof
● How can this be normal?
● A man walks through the destroyed city looking for food - 1945
● Post traumatic stress disorder
● We can control nothing more than we can exist
● I think, therefore, i am
● Bomb damage in London during the second world war
● The blitz
● German word for lighting
● 40,000 people died
● Mass destruction
● European theater of england
● Fight against fascism
● No one is safe
● No one can escape the horrors of war
● Abstract forms
● Surrealism
● Paul klee
● Shapes opposed to show the actual figure
● Not photographic
● Reducing it down to essential forms and shapes
● Endless symbolism
● A Lot of artist was force to fight so art had to pause
● Post war art
● New Harmony
● Created works of art that couldn't be categorized
● Suggest motion
● Exploring colors
● Geometric form
● Outburst of fear
● A year before he died
, ● His sickness but also the sickness of the world
● Unknowable
● Personally expressive
● Like ancient greek art
● People are actively dying
● Images of dying soldiers, stories
● Emotion
● A new expression
● Large movement after the war
● The paint looks cracked
● Looks like something that is decaying
● Spatial concept
● Lucio fontana
● Spacalism
● Idea was exploring space
● Rejecting traditional painting
● Sand
● Really thick oil paint
● Coals poked into the canvas
● What's real and what's not
● Nicholas de stael
● People can see different things which is personally decided when looking at abstract art
● City square
● Mainly metal sculptures
● Alberto giacometti
● Francis bacon
● Head I
● Unfit for active war time
● Work in the rescue service
● Saw suffering
● Reference to changing
● Karel appel
● Hip, hip, hoorah
● Childlike style
● Children see the world naively
● A war in a positive way
● Artist interested in exploring sketches of mentally ill people
● Guati
● Challenge to the mid
● Performances were dramatic
● Unbeatable match
● Abstract is open ended
● I live in fear
● Save his family from getting killed
