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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Abstract Expressionism"”.
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The Human Figure as an Anchor to Realism in Abstract Expressionism
<p>By analyzing the works and histories of three Abstract Expressionist painters, and producing a series of his own figural abstractions, the author argues that Abstract Expressionism is anchored, in part, to the study and training of the human figure.</p> <p>Through a close analysis of the …
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Appropriation and hybridity of Taiwanese literati painting and American abstract expressionism (1949-2007)
… both Chinese Ink-wash painting and American Abstract Expressionism, and represents a different and I hope more progressive artistic style in comparison to the restricted conventions of Literati painting. My thesis seeks to evaluate the mutual appropriation of the stylistic and ideological …
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The Influence of the Mexican Muralists in the United States. From the New Deal to the Abstract Expressionism
… of the Mexican artists' work on the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s. Finally I will also examine the iconography of certain murals by Mexican and American artists to appreciate the reaction of their audience, their acceptance among a circle of artists, and the historical …
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Nuotaika /
… one, where the relation of this work to abstract expressionism is presented, the main artists of this trend and their works are discussed, also the whole process of my work is described. Painting is the part of my life which helps me to express my thoughts, feelings, energy, so this work …
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Hedda Sterne and the abstract expressionist context
… of identity that generally prevailed among the abstract expressionists. She also believed in a reciprocal relationship between language and ideas: different communal languages shaped the ideas of their speakers, just as different ideas often required different languages for precise expression. …
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Abstraction, experience, reduction : time and periodicity in the work of Myron Stout and postwar American art history
… best known for a series of small black and white abstract paintings he made between 1955 and 1980. He is most often associated with American hard-edge painting of the early 1960s, the movement which set the stage for Minimalism. However, Stout’s work predates hard-edge painting in an important …
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Abstraction, Experience, Reduction: Time and Periodicity in the Work of Myron Stout and Postwar American Art History
… best known for a series of small black and white abstract paintings he made between 1955 and 1980. He is most often associated with American hard-edge painting of the early 1960s, the movement which set the stage for Minimalism. However, Stout’s work predates hard-edge painting in an important …
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Lee Bontecou's Early Reliefs (1959-1965): A Critical and Contextual Analysis
… movements as assemblage, minimalism and abstract expressionism. Alternately, contemporary art historian Mona Hadler cites a series of iconographic connections between Bontecou’s reliefs and the popular culture and politics of the late 1950’s and early ‘60s. Using historian Reinhardt …
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Modernist cultural critique: The visual arts and anthropology
… modern art movements, Surrealism, American Abstract Expressionism and the performance art of Joseph Beuys, with that of cultural anthropology with regard to the role of each as cultural critique. This juxtaposition also examines the multiple layering suggested by the relationship between …
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The Space Between
This series of abstracted landscapes is a visual representation of a challenge to step outside of my comfort zone. The paintings are an expression of emotions never before presented in the artist's work. The series expresses the visceral sensation of isolation, anger, and solace experienced …
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Multi-Disciplinary Modernism: Peggy Guggenheim and Art of This Century
… in the development of the New York School and Abstract Expressionism, which led to the shift in the international art center from Paris to New York. Art of This Century was key in ushering in the second generation of avant-garde galleries in New York. And finally, Art of This Century is the …
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Technology, Time, and the State: The Aesthetics of Hydropower in Postcolonial Egypt
… existing outside of the binary of American abstract expressionism and Soviet socialist realism, employed and synthesized new aesthetic ideas in order to achieve their social and political goals. Fundamentally, this thesis argues that the blurred lines of these aesthetics, like the Aswan High …
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Walk. Paint.
… into mark making and how I approach painting. Abstract Expressionism and its constituents such as Ian Fairweather, John Peart, Peter Poulet, Peter Sharp, Tony Tuckson, Jackson Pollock and James Drinkwater are discussed in relation to Al Poulet’s practice. Extending beyond painting and walking …
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Exploring Contexts of Ubiquitous Structures
… this thesis. These influences range from Abstract Expressionism and Modern art to Pop and Contemporary art. The methods I employ that come from these influences vary from drawing and painting on flat surfaces, collaging elements, and later into adding three dimensional objects. I will …
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An Exploration of Modern American Cultural History: An Undergraduate American Studies Course Proposal
… second theme is Anxiety and Fear, which explores Abstract Expressionism and the first gestural drip paintings of Jackson Pollock (circa 1947), Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible (1953), an the Science Fiction film <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</em> (1956). The third and final theme is Identity …
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PAINTING SILENCE
… is examined in terms of its associations with Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. An initial assiunption that 'silent painting' is simply another way of referring to monotonal painting is at first expanded to accommodate theories promoting the grid as an equally effective device for …
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Modern art for middle America : American abstraction in mass magazines, 1946-1960
This thesis examines how mass magazines framed abstract art for a broad public during the years following the Second World War. While art historians have devoted much attention to Abstract Expressionism’s place within the New York art establishment and its international promotion, the presentation …
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Die Erfindung der Moderne: Das Manifest Refus global und die identitätsstiftende Rezeption von Surrealismus und Automatismus in Québec
… automatists as the evolution of Surrealism (like Abstract Expressionism). Many art critics called this the first Canadian painting that followed the modern aesthetics of the time. According to the surrealist program the automatists aspired to create a new Quebec society. In 1948, the fact that …
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A Reconsideration of the Interpretation and Analysis Typically Applied to Edward Hopper’s Art During the 1940s
… and helped draw clear comparisons between Abstract Expressionism (Modernism) and Hopper’s work. The investigation opened up new lines of enquiry, predominantly the relevance of Existential and Modern Man theories to Hopper’s work. The argument follows a journey which began by analysing …
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Object into action: group Ongaku and Fluxus
… and Group Ongaku, such as Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and ethnomusicology ensured concerns with action, chance, the unconscious and re-evaluation of familiar environments and objects. This, for Group Ongaku, was set against the social and political tension of 1960s Tokyo, where …
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