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Arshile Gorky 1904-1948 American (Armenian Born) Abstract Expressionist Painter Stylistically influenced by the following painters and movements - Cubism, Surrealism, Symbolism, Post-Impressionist, Picasso, Cezanne and Kandinsky Education - New School of Design in Boston Cause of Death - Suicide, he hung himself.
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Arshile Gorky Quotaions "Art is not in New York, you see; art is in you." -
Arshile Gorky
The
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Wassily
Kandinsky is considered as the father of abstract art. In 1910
he exhibited the first totally abstract painting - a mysterious
and sensual watercolor.
Abstract art is based upon the idea that the spiritual and emotional
aspect of art must be unchained from the figurative form.
According to Kandinsky "A painter, who finds no satisfaction in
mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his
inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most
non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to
apply the methods of music to his own art. And from this results that
modern desire for rhythm in painting, for mathematical, abstract
construction, for repeated notes of colour, for setting colour in
motion." The
movement was a rebellion against overwrought portraiture and trite
historical themes. The artists dissociated themselves from
representational art and emphasized emotional colors, non-objective
forms, structure and composition. Abstractionists painted for themselves
creating art for arts sake. They worked only from an inner vision and
applied paint in a loose, vigorous manner creating beautiful
intellectual poems. Abstract Expressionism is a movement that grew
out of the abstract style, originating in the United States in after
World War II. Painters created vivid art-works in many diverse styles,
using a variety of mediums. They emphasized uninhibited personal
expression on very large canvases. |
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| Key terms associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement - non-objective, modernism, non representational art, action painting, automatism, individualism, unconscious determinants, contemporary, colour navigation, avant-garde, emotionalism, post-modernism, art concrete, psychoanalysis, inner psyche | ||||
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Major Painters of the Abstract Expressionist Movement
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