What are some characteristics to abstract expressionism art? :)?
Q. Characteristics to this art, like curvy lines, straight lines...really anything that can help you determine if a painting can be categorized under this name. :) Thank you! All help appreciated.
Asked by Daffy - Sun Mar 30 18:29:39 2008 - Other - Visual Arts - 1 Answers - Comments

A. -emphasis on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation -has an image of being rebellious, anarhic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, rather nihilistic -involves careful planning -implies expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, the unconscious and the mind List of abstract expressionists Major artists *Significant artists whose mature work defined American Abstract Expressionism: * William Baziotes * Norman Bluhm * Louise Bourgeois * James Brooks * Hans Burkhardt * Jack Bush * Alexander Calder * John Chamberlain * Elaine de Kooning * Willem de Kooning * Robert De Niro, Sr. * Richard Diebenkorn * Enrico Donati * Friedel Dzubas * Norris Embry * Jimmy Ernst * Herbert Ferber * Jane Frank * Helen Frankenthaler * Sam Francis *… [cont.]
Answered by pis4pir8 - Sun Mar 30 18:48:55 2008

What was going on socially and politically in America at the time of the abstract expressionists?
Q. abstract expressionism in America What was going on socially and politically at that time ? And how did they influence society ?
Asked by Z - Wed Nov 3 16:04:52 2010 - History - 1 Answers - Comments

A. Z, two things stand out for this time frame: Politically - this was the time of Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive movement (in large part opposition to the policies of President Taft). Socially - Family Planning began to surface in a form of promotion never before seen to this point in American history. Hope this helps somewhat - the rest is now up to you. Best of luck with your report. Gerry
Answered by Gerry - Sun Nov 7 10:40:01 2010

How do I understand abstract art?
Q. I have a fascination with abstract art, mostly because I don't understand it; I don't understand where it comes from, or how it becomes catalyzed. It's not just surreal paintings or sculpture, but also obscure music, photography, avant-garde ways of life, or eccentric people. It's paradoxical because the less I understand it, the more I enjoy it, but at the same time the fact that I don't understand it leaves my mind running wild with thought. Do I rely solely on interpretation? For example... how should I interpret abstract expressionism?
Asked by CM - Thu Jul 23 22:40:46 2009 - Other - Arts & Humanities - 3 Answers - Comments

A. the best way to understand: take a class. i took a class on modern art and it is imperative that you understand the culture and the context in which the piece was created. you can read up on abstract expressionism to get some idea of it, but the best way is to really understand the evolution of art and how abstract expressionism fits into the time period in which it occurred. what came before it and what came after.
Answered by tahnijoy - Fri Jul 24 11:37:33 2009

What's the difference between abstract art and abstract expressionism?
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Asked by Jacq - Sun Sep 7 00:47:16 2008 - Other - Visual Arts - 1 Answers - Comments

A. the people that come up with the categories ie the luvvies that go"i really understand what he's/she's saying with this piece",they need the pigeon holes so they can sound superior at dinner parties
Answered by doug - Sun Sep 7 06:05:25 2008

How did a specific time period influence Abstract Expressionism?
Q. how did the 1940's and artists who came the USA from France influence abstract expressionism?
Asked by soccerchick221 - Sun Oct 18 11:44:11 2009 - Painting - 1 Answers - Comments

A. French artists fleeing France for America due to the bad conditions in Europe over ww2. It was an art movement as well as a psychological movement with abstract thoughts and concepts. I like to think of it as the grandfather of the 60s.
Answered by jhkfk - Sun Oct 18 11:57:14 2009

style of abstract expressionism?
Q. how can you describe the style of abstract expressionism?
Asked by cikka g - Sun Dec 23 17:58:55 2007 - Drawing & Illustration - 3 Answers - Comments

A. The expressive method of painting was often considered as important as the painting itself.
Answered by Dunhill J - Sun Dec 23 18:02:58 2007

What was important abstract expressionism art movement in term of artistic, style ,technique or subject?
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Asked by xtriniibabezx - Tue May 25 21:27:36 2010 - History - 1 Answers - Comments

A. The phrasing of the question is a little off, but here is a general definition of abstract expressionism: "Abstract Expressionist paintings share several broad characteristics. They are basically abstract i.e., they depict forms not drawn from the visible world. They emphasize free, spontaneous, and personal emotional expression, and they exercise considerable freedom of technique and execution to attain this goal, with a particular emphasis laid on the exploitation of the variable physical character of paint to evoke expressive qualities (e.g., sensuousness, dynamism, violence, mystery, lyricism). They show similar emphasis on the unstudied and intuitive application of that paint in a form of psychic improvisation akin to the… [cont.]
Answered by ThoughtCrim - Fri May 28 00:52:23 2010

What were the Abstract Expressionists tring to achieve with Abstract Expressionism?
Q. I am doing a presentation on Abstract Expressionism and I have alot of info but I am not really clear on a few things: What were they trying to achieve? Where they responding or trying to achieve something after WWII? Did it actually affect the history of art or the ongoing art movements? If you could help that would be great I am just lacking some ifo because the web sites seem to focus more on the war and how the movement started. The artists I am focusing on are Pollock, Gottlieb, de Kooning, and Gorky.. :)
Asked by Jen - Mon Nov 23 14:43:52 2009 - Painting - 1 Answers - Comments

A. Well, it's hard to come up with principles that will apply to all AE artists, because many of them were more different than they were alike. In general, the idea was to combine sometime intense and spontaneous emotional expressiveness with an exploration of the potential of materials and a rejection of standard figurative art -- of traditional representational illusionism. Much pre-war expressionism had maintained its ties to representation to some extent; the abstract expressionists began to reject it. The intention was to be "different" and revolutionary -- avant-garde, exploratory, forward-looking, even rebellious and shocking, in the sense that the works of an artist like Pollock seemed to some people to be (but weren't)… [cont.]
Answered by Lili - Mon Nov 23 15:28:14 2009

What is the diffrence between Abstract Expressionism and Minimalist Abstraction?
Q. I am doing a report on Susan Rothenberg, and have found articles stating she is one or the other. I'm trying to figure out what the actual definitions are of both. I need to be able to describe what her lasting influence on the art world is. If anybody knows where I can find good info. on Rothenberg and/or good large images I can print of her works Ghost Rug and Impending Doom I would be very grateful. Thank you.
Asked by curious - Thu Mar 26 17:22:42 2009 - Painting - 1 Answers - Comments

A. In abstract expressionism the painter is showing his or hers own energy through the brushstroke. The viewer can feel the painters emotions by following the jabs, swirls, swashes and marks the artist made. This can be experienced in viewing Rothenbergs objects, edges and surfaces in her subjects and her backgrounds. Minimalist abstraction is summed up in the quote "Less is more" Minamalist abstraction says that if you put one mark on a page that one mark gets 100% of the attention. If you add another mark the first mark only gets half the attention, and so on so that as you add more things each of the individual things loses some of its impact. Rothenberg's simplifies in Minimalist ways creating powerful impact in paintings that… [cont.]
Answered by Sport - Sat Mar 28 12:02:33 2009

What promoted the abstract expressionism movement and how did this play a role in the art style?
Q. Thank you! Very much!
Asked by Charlie B - Wed Oct 22 17:14:34 2008 - History - 1 Answers - Comments

A. Abstract expressionism was a style born in New York. It was conspicuously not European, not French and most definitely NOT communist - unlike much of pre-War avant-garde (Picasso amongst others was a member of the Communist Party). It was born with the idea of shifting the home of cutting edge artistic movements from war-torn Europe to glamourous New York - it also came with a modern sound-track - Jazz. Another reason for its growth was the adoption of Socialist-Realism style in the newly "liberated" countries of Eastern Europe, and by artists such as Diego Riviera - there was also a serious debate in France about whether or not to adopt the style among the leading lights of the French art scene. But, the organisation which… [cont.]
Answered by Spellbound - Thu Oct 23 13:01:58 2008

How did pop art differ from Abstract Expressionism?
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Asked by joan - Wed May 2 17:01:25 2007 - Drawing & Illustration - 2 Answers - Comments

A. Abstract expressionism was a little earlier that Pop art. Abstract expressionism was defined by two things: 1, there is no representation of any object, person or place. Paint is paint, paint is not a person. For this reason, Abstract expressionists (2) also believed that when you use a medium, yous should create art that can only be done in that medium (i.e. pollocks dripping paint). The final image was up to the viewer to inturpret, not the artist. Pop art was more about consumerism, and mass production. It was a reaction to the Abstract expressionists. Instead of an ambiguos image, pop artists hit you over the head with the idea in a deadpan sort of advertising way. Warhol used the screen printing medium to further accentuate the mass… [cont.]
Answered by moebiustrip - Thu May 3 15:15:51 2007

When did Abstract Expressionism start?
Q. a little info about abstract expressionism would be nice also
Asked by Zakiya M - Thu Feb 19 15:44:10 2009 - Drawing & Illustration - 1 Answers - Comments

A. Abstract expressionism was an American post World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. Although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regarding German Expressionism. In the USA, Alfred Barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky. Alfonso Ossorio, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell are among the leaders of the movement.
Answered by fa98 - Thu Feb 19 16:00:47 2009

how can i become a Abstract expressionism painter?
Q. What do i need to get started? details please
Asked by . - Mon May 31 18:58:57 2010 - Painting - 1 Answers - 2 Comments

A. You need a canvas or paper and some paint. You need to do some exercises with mark-making, developing a variety of expressive marks- brush strokes, drips, splotches, puddles, lines, shapes, and forms. You need to understand the formal elements of picture-making- composition, color, direction, weight, ... You need an understanding of what you want to express and how to do that through practice.
Answered by Daphne - Mon May 31 19:35:44 2010

What is Abstract expressionism that began in New York in 1945?
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Asked by dugam - Wed Dec 5 21:11:47 2007 - Drawing & Illustration - 3 Answers - Comments

A. I think it was a response to the literalness of modern art. The Abstract Expressionists wanted "pure art", and any recognizable object or form within a painting was not "pure" because your previous experience with this object meant that you were not objective, you were not viewing the art work with fresh eyes. Read "The Painted Word" by Tom Wolfe. I'm basically lifting all this from him.
Answered by FV - Wed Dec 5 21:19:38 2007

when abstract expressionism movement roughly took place?
Q. when, where , time period ect .
Asked by kayla - Tue May 25 21:10:17 2010 - History - 1 Answers - Comments

A. 1950s and 1960s in America. [German Expressionism was before that in 1910s and 1920s, in Germany]
Answered by happyasamuffin - Wed May 26 17:52:13 2010

What is your opinion on abstract expressionism art?
Q. Do you like it? - Why or why not? What do you think about the works of John Polluck?
Asked by LoveYourLife - Wed Jan 21 22:09:58 2009 - Painting - 2 Answers - Comments

A. I think we are still in the curve between the creation and the acceptance of abstract expressionism. It is just like when impressionism was chided by critics as not being real art. Those who do not understand or appreciate the motivation, concepts or results of the abstraction or expressionistic process will likely never embrace it as real art. I do not fully appreciate it, nor do I "see" what many artists are doing in their work, but I do not judge that it is or isn't art . . . in much the same way I do not wish others to judge me as to whether I am "really an artist" or not! The arguments that abstract and expressionistic art is a cop-out, impersonating real art, or "anyone-could-do-it" easy are empty… [cont.]
Answered by tlw-artist - Wed Jan 21 23:13:14 2009

connections between abstract expressionism and photography?
Q. what are the connections between abstract expressionism and photography?
Asked by nicker - Tue May 10 18:47:50 2011 - Photography - 1 Answers - Comments

A. It's connected in the way you can portray emotions and other things without necessarily planing it, it's hard to explain really just like its hard to explain abstract haha. Abstract is my favorite style of art and photograpy is my favorite form of art (:
Answered by Photography Freak - Tue May 10 21:26:49 2011

What influenced abstract expressionism?
Q. For a project I need to know how the artistic period of abstract expressionism was tied to the world around it and what period came before it. Please help or give us websites to help. Thanks.
Asked by shray95 - Sat May 8 13:42:05 2010 - Painting - 2 Answers - Comments

A. Expressionism starts in Germany, and it was the equivalent of the phoe in France. A group is formed called the blue riders. They were very interested in psychology. It took someone to come up with non objective art. Abstraction and non objective art are different. Abstraction is a representation of an object, in non objective there is no object is more metaphysical.
Answered by Ms. O'Neill - Sun May 9 02:02:17 2010

What are the similarities and differences between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism?
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Asked by pembrokelover - Sun Jan 31 19:15:54 2010 - Drawing & Illustration - 1 Answers - Comments

A. Both were formalist, but Surrealism was figurative usually while abstract expressionism usually avoided it. The only exception I can think of was De Kooning's women who were so gestural that likeness was not one of the issues they dealt with. Surrealism usually dealt with juxtaposition, so Magritte painted a pipe then painted the inscription "Ceci n'est une pipe" on it (sp.?) (this is not a pipe) or painted a street in the rain and the rain drops were little men with umbrellas and raincoats. These were not intended to tell stories -- the pipe picture was a painting, not an argument. Just so Jackson Pollock with his drip paintings, Franz Kline with his monumental canvases and the aformentioned De Kooning women were all about color… [cont.]
Answered by jplatt39 - Sun Jan 31 20:39:18 2010

Which art movement was a major influence on abstract expressionism?
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Asked by N - Wed Jul 6 23:55:34 2011 - Other - Arts & Humanities - 1 Answers - Comments

A. Hi, The early abstract expressionists themselves each saw themselves individually rather than collectively as a movement, so you could say that there's no single answer to this. But broadly the art movements that influenced the painters in the New York scene of the 1940s and 50s would have been Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism and the Bauhaus. Possibly the most significant influence on abstract expressionism was their response to the horrors unleashed in the second world war. I hope this helps
Answered by Richard_S - Thu Jul 7 10:55:54 2011