The History of Abstract Expressionism
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Added on 2019-09-30
The History of Abstract Expressionism
Added on 2019-09-30
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Comparing Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock’s One: Number 31 with Pop ArtistAndy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans.The history of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and the artists Abstract expressionism was an art movement in the American painting after the World War 2.This originated in New York in the 1940’s. The aim of this movement was to achieve theinternational influence and place the city of New York at the center of the western art world(Cockroft, 2013). The artists of the Abstract Expressionism were influenced by the leftist politicsof the era and they valued the art that was grounded in the personal experience. The artists in thisperiod were mostly avant-gardists who were outspoken, and they protested from the margins.The subjects that were picked in the Abstract Expressionismwere related to social realism andthe Regionalist movement (Cockroft, 2013). One of the artists of this period was Jackson Pollock. The artist explored the AbstractExpressionism via the action pieces and the splatter. The painter poured the paint and the othermedia onto the canvases directly. The liquid paint was introduced by him in the year 1936(O’Hara, 2015). Number 31 is a three wall-size painting made by Pollock that represent tensionin the landmark in the history of Abstract Expressionism. Pop Art was another art movement that began in the mid-1950's in Britain and in late 1950’s inthe US. The main characteristic of this art was that the material was visually separated from theknown context and it was combined with some other material that was not related to it (The ArtStory, 2016). This art was influenced by the mass culture of advertising, comic books or theother cultural objects that were mundane. The technique used in the Pop Art was the usage of theimages of the popular art culture and the banal, and the kitschy elements of the culture were
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