Abstract Expressionism - Abstract Expressionism

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1. Abstract
Expressionism

2. Abstract Expressionism
•synthesis of Europe’s
cubist and surrealist
styles

3. Action Painting
• huge canvases spread on the
floor, splattering, squirting, and
dribbling paint with (seemingly) no
pre-planned pattern or design in
mind

5. Color Field Painting
• uses different color
saturations (purity,
vividness, intensity) to
create their desired effects

9. Pop Art
•paintings, posters, collages,
to three-dimensional
“assemblages” and
installations.

10. •inspirations were the celebrities,
advertisements, billboards, and
comic strips that were becoming
common place at that time
Pop Art

14. Conceptual Art
•uses such unusual
materials as grease,
blocks of ice, food, even
just plain dirt.

18. Op Art
a form of “action
painting,” with the action
taking place in the
viewer’s eye.