Abstract Expressionism
[2023-07-23 04:20:02]
"In my opinion, contemporary painters can not express this era with the old form of the Renaissance and other past cultures, airplanes, atomic bombs, and radios." - Jackson Pollock
Abstract expressionism celebrates the new era of American art performance after the war (from the late 1940s to the 1950s). Although it was not an official sport or school, "AbEx" combines artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clifford Still, etc, and has spontaneity, huge size, personal feelings and It brings emotion. I'm interested. Historically, AbEx was divided into two trends: a gesture abstraction (or motion painting) that highlights the painter's marker energy and a color that focuses on the creation of a gigantic, seemingly floating, color area Field painting. The emergence of abstract expressionism is due to European movements such as Cubism and Surrealism arriving in New York in the 1930s, the museum exhibitions in the 1940s, academic institutions, and the influence of many European artists. Relocation of the United States
In the late 1960s, Abstract Expressionist painter Philip Guston led the transition from abstract expressionism to new expressionism in painting, abandoning the so-called "pure abstraction" of abstract expressionism. Supports more cartoon effects of various personal symbols and objects. These works inspired the new generation of painters who are interested in resurrecting the image. As shown above, his painting "Painting, Smoking, Diet 1973" is an example of Guston's last and last regression.
Action painting is a prosperous style from the 1940s to the early 1960s, and it is closely related to abstract expressionism (some critics use the term action painting and abstract expressionism in the same sense doing). American action painting and French speed painting are often compared. This term was built by American critic Harold Rosenberg in 1952 and showed a big change in the aesthetic view of the New York school and critics. According to Rosenberg, the canvas is "a stage where action can take place". Abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Klein, William De Kooning have been vaguely convinced that the picture is a stage of integration with creative behavior for a long time, but early critics have come up with the cause I sympathized with, for example, Clement Greenberg focused on the "objectivity" of their work.
One of the most outspoken critics against the then abstract expressionism was the art critic John Canada of the New York Times. Meyer Schapiro and Leo Steinberg, and Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg are important post-war art historians who expressed support for abstract expressionism. From the early 1960's to the mid-1960's, young art critic Michael Fried, Rosalind Krauss, and Robert Hughes gave deep insight into the important dialectic about the continued development of abstract expressionism. .
Abstract expressionism is known for large pictures separated from traditional processes. It is often to remove the canvas from easel and use exceptional materials like house paint. Abstract expressionism is often considered an improvement of painting, but its idea has deep resonance in many media including paintings and sculptures. Abstract expressionism appears in the politics of the Cold War and the atmosphere of social and cultural conservatism. World War II positions the United States as a major power of the world, and in the years after conflict, many Americans enjoyed the benefits of unprecedented economic growth. By the mid-1950's, however, the spirit of optimism evolved into a powerful force and a paranoia hybrid. Fearing the Communist Party's penetration, Senator Wisconsin Joseph McCarthy launched a series of "hunting witches" against so-called communist sympathizers. There is a possibility that a person becomes suspicious if there is a hint of subversion.