ABSTRACT+EXPRESSIONISM

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
HARLEE, MATT, JOSE

DEFINITION OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM An artistic movement of the mid 20th century comprising diverse styles and techniques and emphasizing especially an artist's liberty to convey attitudes and emotions through nontraditional and usually nonrepresentational means.

MAJOR ARTISTS
 * Hans Hofmann** (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American [|abstract expressionist] painter. He was born in [|Weißenburg], [|Bavaria] on March 21, 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life.


 * Jackson Pollock** (January 28, 1912 -- August 11, 1956) he grew up in California and Arizona, but moved to New York in 1930 where he studied painting under painter Thomas Hart Benton. He had his first one man show in 1943, his works becoming more abstract. By the late 1400s he had developed a process for which he became famous, dripping paint onto flat canvasses to form abstract expressions of "unconcious imagery."

LINKs

http://media.www.thechannelsonline.com/media/storage/paper669/news/2007/04/18/Entertainment/Strokes.Splatter-2849815.shtml https://www.msu.edu/course/ha/240/pollock.htm http://www.onlineartcenter.com/images/pollockpaintingcolor.jpg

Helen Frankenthaler (1928- Present) An abstract expressionist for the next generation. After she graduated she studied with Rufino Tamayo.After earning her B.A. degree at Bennington Collage in Vermont, she moved back to New York to persue further. Well inspired by many artists, Frankenthaler began the experiments that started in her stain paintings: large-scale abstractions with thin washes of pigment. This style inspired the color field painters and earned impressive reviews for Frankenthaler from 1953 on.For many years Frankenthaler executed stained canvases that seem nonrepresentational, but which are actually based on real or imaginary landscapes.



LINKs http://www.hanshofmann.net/ http://www.nmwa.org/collection/profile.asp?LinkID=249 http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=6467&page_tab=Artworks_for_sale http://www.kassmeridian.com/frankenthaler/index.html

Mrs. Darling's comments: Good job on finding nice colorful images, it is an important element for this group of artists, since they rarely included what we would call a realistic subject. The best set of links I saw were for Helen Frankenthaler,especially the __National Museum of Women in the Arts__ the others might need more interesting websites to visit.