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About The Abstract
Expressionist Movement
Franz
Kline was one of the
most famous painters
associated with the
Abstract Expressionist
Movement. 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.
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.
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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