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Abstract Expressionism “ Action Painting” & “ Colour- Field Painting”
The actual act of creating the painting was important , the development of the
subject or the style was not important.
For a while the Abstract Expressionist became the dominant painters in the
world.
An idea more than a single style.
The artist didn’t really have much in common , expect when they protest against
realism.
Assertion of the individual was important
Abstract expressionist had in common , an interest in painterly painting , in
applying the paint to the canvas in new and different ways.
Jackson Pollock
Background Details
Became the symbol of American painting
Influenced by worldwide
He was seen by many as a sort of existentialistic hero
Alcoholic – teen years
Married another painter
Influenced by the huge sand paintings of the Navaho Indians
“ It doesn’t make any difference how the paint is put on , as long as something
has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement”
Subject Matter
American themes – early periods and influenced by Beneton, “ Landscape With
Rider”
Mythological works
Poetic subjects
Subject matter disappeared later – works were named after they were completed
– or they were simply just given number as titles.
Subjects were often rather ‘dark-veined’ e.g. ‘ Lucifer’
Technique and Medium
Action Painting
Ritual painting ( The actual act of painting itself was art)
He would roll canvases out on the floor and works – then choose his fav section
and cuts them out and then stretch them
He would step into his paintings , work in them , become party of them
Very new and experimental techniques
He drips and fling paint on to the surface of the canvas
Heavy Impasto in certain works
Mixed paint with broken glass and foreign objects
, Style
Pollock is the Romantic
They become the Ingres and Delacroix of Modern Art
American Romanticism is prominent in his earlier painting
Abstract Expressionism
In terms of chromatic density ( the fullness of his colour ) and the brilliant illusions
of movement and space - Pollock can be termed “ Baroque”
Very highly expressive
Brutal energy
Gesture painter
“ When I lose control , the results is a mess”
Composition
Line
Accidental and uncontrolled line
Untraditional line
Purely expressive line
His lines – over decorative
Organic flow
Colour
Few black & white
Colour was not vital to his painting
With the entangled lines of colours there is an illusion of the continuous
movement of billowing forms.
Space and Volume
Overlapping of the layers of paint- contributes to the feeling of space and
movement
Ambiguous space
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