Answer the following questions as a comment. Use your own words.
1. Look at the paintings by Jackson Pollock. Describe them using adjectives.
2. What are they paintings of exactly?
3. Why do you think that they are perhaps the most famous of all American paintings?
4. Define Abstract Expressionism
5. In what decade did Ab Ex dominate American art?
2 comments:
1. colorful, has a lot of contrast (both depends on the pictures)
2. The paintings are expressions of feelings. they don't show things or people, they show how Pollock felt, when he painted his pictures. (the different tees of the lines and shapes let the beholder know what emotions the artist experienced while he was painting)
3.Pollocks paintings are revolutionary in the history of art because it was a whole new way of showing art. expressing feelings through not normal things(normal things= bowl of fruit or everyday stuff) Pollocks pictures (American art)started a whole new view and way on/of art, and that is probably why his pictures are Americas most famous art works.
4.abstract expressionism is subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act like action painting.
5.Ab Ex was founded in the 1940's but the big time of Ab Ex were the 1950's.
Lasse- Bo Fries
1. The paintings are unique in the way that they are just color everywhere, blended together to create a picture like nothing has been seen before.
2. The paintings look like how the painter is feeling. Anger is expressed with large strokes, for example.
3. They look like an artist at the peak of their imaginative and inspirational state of mind to create these masterpieces. It may seem simple, but Pollock was the first to do it.
4. A form of abstract art which originated in America in the 1950s in which the artist involved chance and the subconscious in the creation of the oil painting.
5. The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American Abstract expressionism, a modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Surrealism, Joan Miró, Cubism, Fauvism, and early Modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann from Germany and John D. Graham from Russia.
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