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Expressionism

The document discusses Expressionism in art, focusing on three forerunners: Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso. It describes Munch's personal experiences that influenced his art, including death of family members. It also discusses Picasso's Blue Period works depicting the poor and how Abstract Expressionism emerged in the US after WWII with artists like Jackson Pollock creating drip paintings that emphasized the creative process over the final product.

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Expressionism

The document discusses Expressionism in art, focusing on three forerunners: Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso. It describes Munch's personal experiences that influenced his art, including death of family members. It also discusses Picasso's Blue Period works depicting the poor and how Abstract Expressionism emerged in the US after WWII with artists like Jackson Pollock creating drip paintings that emphasized the creative process over the final product.

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EXPRESSIONISM

• Expressionism is an attitude/philosophy of
art (not a particular style)
– Artists express their personal feelings or
emotions through their artwork
• 3 artists act as the forerunners to
Expressionism
– Vincent Van Gogh
– Edvard Munch
– Pablo Picasso
Edvard Munch
• “How much of my
art I owe to
suffering.”
• Obsessed with
death, anxiety,
loss, abandonment
and loneliness
– Mother died
when he was 6
– Sister died a few
years later
The Scream, 1893
• "I was walking along the road
with two friends.
The sun was setting.
I felt a breath of melancholy -
Suddenly the sky turned
blood-red.
I stopped, and leaned against
the railing, deathly tired -
looking out across the flaming
clouds that hung like blood
and a sword
over the blue-black fjord and
town.
My friends walked on - I stood
there, trembling with fear.
And I sensed a great, infinite
scream pass through nature."
• Sound waves
flowing out of
mouth into
atmosphere
• Inner drama
– State of mind
• Icon of
anguish
• Expressive
curves and
colors
Death in the Sickroom, 1893
• The
memory of
the death
of Munch`s
beloved
sister,
Sophie
Vampire, 1893-1894
Anxiety
Paris in the late 1800’s
to early 1900’s
• Large factories being built
attract many people to move
into the city
• Overcrowding and poor living
conditions lead to disease and
poverty
Pablo Picasso
• Affected by the tragic mood
of urban society
• Blue Period: painted
derelicts, beggars and poor
families with a mostly blue
palette
Old Guitarist, 1903
• Poet Wallace Stevens puts
words to Picasso's belief that
art is the lie to help us see the
truth in his poem "The Man
with the Blue Guitar."
– "They said, 'You have a blue
guitar, / You do not play things
as they are.' / The man replied,
'Things as they are / Are
changed upon the blue guitar.”
Abstract Expressionism
• Influenced by the aftermath of WW II
• Many European artists had fled to the US
and New York begins to dominate the art
scene
• Large scale works w/ expression of feeling
through slashing, active brushstrokes
Jackson Pollock
• “Jack the Dripper”
• Series of drip paintings
– Laid canvas on floor and
freely dripped, spilled, and
threw color onto canvas
• Emphasis on Action
Painting
– The ACT of creating the
painting becomes more
important than the painting
itself
– Idea of “controlled accident”
• "When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is
only after a sort of "get acquainted" period that I see what I
have been about. I have no fears about making changes,
destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its
own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact
with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is
pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes
out well."
Number 1 (Lavender Mist),1950
• Intended to be flat in appearance, non-objective
• “The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come
through.''
• Instead of using brushes he applied paint with
sticks, trowels or knives
Check out
this website!
It’s pretty
cool!

Jacksonpollock.org

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