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Jackson Pollock
1912-1956 Birth - Jackson Pollock, who was born in the small town of Cody, Wyoming 1912 . Education
- Pollock took his earliest lessons in art at the Manual
Arts High School in Los Angeles. He later studied under
Thomas Hart Benton
at the Art Students League in New York from 1929 to 1931.
Cause of Death - Automobile Accident, Age 44
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Jackson Pollock Quotations
Every good painter paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a
halfway state and an attempt to point out the direction of the future -
without arriving there completely. - Jackson Pollock 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 initial public reaction to abstract art was one of shock and
repulsion. According to Kandinsky "The solitary visionaries are
despised or regarded as abnormal and eccentric. Those who are not
wrapped in lethargy and who feel vague longings for spiritual life and
knowledge and progress, cry in harsh chorus, without any to comfort
them. The night of the spirit falls more and more darkly. Deeper becomes
the misery of these blind and terrified guides, and their followers,
tormented and unnerved by fear and doubt, prefer to this gradual
darkening the final sudden leap into the blackness." 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
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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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