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Helen
Frankenthaler
1928-
American Abstract
Expressionist Artist
Frankenthaler' s enormous canvases are painted in an open
composition often building around a free, abstract, central image. She
builds form from within, contrasting the saturation and density of her
paint to create a rising and expanding motion interconnected to aquatic
or topography images. |
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Helen Frankenthaler Quotations The
Abstract Expressionist Movement |
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| Russian artist
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. 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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Important Painters of the Abstract Expressionist Movement
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