Abstract ExpressionismThe Rise of American Art

The World of AbEx

Post WWII

Spiritual and Cerebral

Painter as Celebrity

Male-Centric Movement

Theory

Greenberg Rosenberg

Materials as primary

Art should be only what its medium allows

“Action” Painting

Art should embrace theater

The Cold WarThe Battle Against Social Realism

AbEx is Anti-Communism and Fascism

Mukhina, The Worker and the Collective Farm Worker, Soviet Pavilion, Paris Exposition, 1937

Pollock“Jack the Dripper”“I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.””There is no

accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVE-WQBcYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otBdXcWOELY

Pollock, Number 31

Number 31“Pollock’s talent is volcanic. It has fire. It is unpredictable. It is undisciplined…It is lavish, explosive, untidy…

Number 1-Lavender MistWhat we need is more young men who paint from inner compulsion without an ear to what the critic or the spectator may feel—painters who will risk spoiling a canvas to say something in their own way.”---Greenberg

Krasner and Pollock“When I took Jackson to see Hoffmann, he said well your work is good, but you don’t work from nature. Jackson said, ‘I am nature.’.”--Krasner

Krasner, Celebration

DeKooning: “The Slipping Glimpser”

Excavation

Woman I

Totem of Womanhood? Vagina Dentata?

Rothko, Untitled

Color-Field Painting

“My works are about tragedy, ecstasy and doom.”

“The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them, and if you are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point.”

Untitled

Rothko ChapelDeMenil Collection, Houston

Lavender Mist

Art Response #4

Identify the work (artist, title, time period) and then discuss two main points you have learned in reference to it and why it fits into the time period. Then state why the work is relevant to the study of art history. Your answers must be detailed and use proper essay format.