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Robert Motherwell American Colorist, Abstract Expressionist Painter 1915-1991
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Robert Motherwell Quotations Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. -- Robert Motherwell
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. According to Kandinsky
"If we begin at once to break the bonds which bind us to nature, and
devote ourselves purely to combination of pure colour and abstract form,
we shall produce works which are mere decoration, which are suited to
neckties or carpets. Beauty of Form and Colour is no sufficient aim by
itself, despite the assertions of pure aesthetes or even of naturalists,
who are obsessed with the idea of beauty. 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
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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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