ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Believed in the absolute individuality of the artist (in the tradition of Romanticism)
Revolted against tradition and illusionistic imagery, no illusion of picture plane.
Jackson Pollock European avant-garde
Number 3, work (Fauvism,
Tiger/shimmering Cubism, Dada,
substance Surrealism) and Aztec,
African and Native
oil on canvas American/ First
(Freud)
Bernett Newman Existentialism: we
Pagan Void need to make sense of
the world
Oil on Canvas They sought timeless
subject matter (Jung
archetypes) collective
unconscious
Mark Rothco capture essence of
Orange and Yellow human emotion
refusal to copy from
nature
Oil on canvas emphasis on emotion
and responses
Believed in the absolute individuality of the artist (in the tradition of Romanticism)
Revolted against tradition and illusionistic imagery, no illusion of picture plane.
Jackson Pollock European avant-garde
Number 3, work (Fauvism,
Tiger/shimmering Cubism, Dada,
substance Surrealism) and Aztec,
African and Native
oil on canvas American/ First
(Freud)
Bernett Newman Existentialism: we
Pagan Void need to make sense of
the world
Oil on Canvas They sought timeless
subject matter (Jung
archetypes) collective
unconscious
Mark Rothco capture essence of
Orange and Yellow human emotion
refusal to copy from
nature
Oil on canvas emphasis on emotion
and responses
