Abstract Expressionism Painting Project
- Exploring the elements of line, value, texture and color
- Exploring the principles of rhythm, pattern, movement and contrast
- Exploring color and color harmonies as a mode to communicate emotions/feelings
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Summative Studio Outcome:
Each student will create an abstract painting inspired by a poem OR a song using techniques learned in class about color mixing, color harmonies and acrylic mixed media.
For the first project of the year, we will delve into abstract art making inspired by the Abstract Expressionism movement. This was an art movement that emerged in the early 1940s, primarily in New York, where a small group of artists created a stylistically diverse body of work that introduced radical new directions in art—and shifted the art world’s focus. The artists known as “Abstract Expressionists” or “The New York School” did, however, share some common assumptions. Among others, artists such as Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), Franz Kline (1910–1962), Lee Krasner (1908–1984), Robert Motherwell (1915–1991), William Baziotes (1912–1963), Mark Rothko (1903–1970), Barnett Newman (1905–1970), Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992), and Clyfford Still (1904–1980) advanced audacious formal inventions in a search for significant content.
Breaking away from accepted conventions in both technique and subject matter, the artists made monumentally scaled works that stood as reflections of their individual psyches—and in doing so, attempted to tap into universal inner sources. These artists valued spontaneity and improvisation, and they accorded the highest importance to process. Their work resists stylistic categorization, but it can be clustered around two basic inclinations: an emphasis on dynamic, energetic gesture, in contrast to a reflective, cerebral focus on more open fields of color. In either case, the imagery was primarily abstract. Even when depicting images based on visual realities, the Abstract Expressionists favored a highly abstracted mode.
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Compositon VII, 1913
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