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1. ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM
Yamlak Teshome 1620/14
Meklit Habtamu 1032/14

2. HISTORY
•Produced in Newyork , by European artists who moved there
during world war two
•1940-1960
•Arshiley Gorkey put this movement into motion
•Made Newyork the center of the art world
• The first art movement to influence artists overseas

3. What is it...
•Abstract Expressionism is an art movement in which artists
basically applied paint rapidly and with force to their canvases in
an effort to show feelings and emotions
•Inspired by the Surrealist idea; art should come from unconscious
mind
•It’s purpose is to create new forms of expression that were more
personal

4. It’s characteristics...
•Non representational nature
•Rely on gestural brush works
•Emphasis the depiction of emotion rather than objects
•Large scale drawing
•Absence of recognizable objects

5. Abstract Expressionism have two
techniques
1. Action painting
paint is spontaneously
dripped, splashed or
smeared onto the canvas
Willem De konning
Paris review
1979

6. Cont...
Mark Rothko
Orange and red on red
1957
2. Color field painting
painting with solid area
of color covering the
whole canvas. Meant to
see up close, so the
viewer is immersed in
color.

7. FAMOUS ARTISTS
MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970)
•Best known for his color field painting
•Irregular and paintery rectangular regions of
color
•He worked from 1949 to 1970
•He did not attend art school but was involved
in abstract expressionism movement

8. Green and maroon
1953
No 14
1960
No 61(Rust and blue)
1963
Untitled (Black on Gray)
1970

9. LEE KRANSER(1908-1984)
•Known for her abstract, gestural, and
expressive works in painting, collage
painting, charcoal drawing, and
occasionally mosaics.
•She differed from other abstract
expressionists by changing her work style
often

10. The seasons
Cool white
1959
Night creatures
1965

11. DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
•One of the most famous abstract
expressionism sculptors
•Created large, steel geometric
sculptures
•He was the first American artist to
make welded metal sculpture
Cubi XIX
1964

12. LEGACIES...
•Created a new way to look at art
•Influenced later art movements
like pop art and minimalism

Franz Kline
Figure eight 1952