The Abstract Expressionists
1940-1965
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To the Abstract Expressionists, art is about "passion." They were a group of painters that typically splashed paint rapidly, and with force allowing their feelings and emotions to be transferred directly to their massive canvas. The painting method often abandons the use of traditional means for the application of color, applying paint with hands, fingers or washes. Paint is generally applied directly from the tube, favoring pure color from the highest quality paints. The Abstract Expressionist tossed caution to the wind and reality out the window as they used emotive colour, abstract shapes and surface texture to create visual metaphors for modern life. The new movement was built upon the European masters of abstraction, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexei Jawlensky, Ernst Kirchner and Paul Klee.
A List of The Greatest Abstract Expressionist Painters
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Wassily Kandinsky Art Quotations
The all-important spark
of inner spiritual life is
at present only a spark. -
Wassily Kandinsky Quote
Color is the keyboard, the
eyes are the harmonies, the
soul is the piano with many
strings. The artist is the
hand that plays, touching
one key or another, to cause
vibrations in the soul -
Wassily Kandinsky Quote
There is no must in art
because art is free. -
Wassily Kandinsky Quote
The more frightening the
world becomes ... the more
art becomes abstract. -
Wassily Kandinsky Quote
Black is like the silence of
the body after death, the
close of life. - Wassily
Kandinsky Quote
The spirit like the body,
can be strengthened and
developed by frequent
exercise. - Wassily
Kandinsky Quote
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