The Jackson Pollok Movement In The 1930's

The expressionist movement emerged in two separate cultural hearths in Germany. Centered in Dresden, a group of artists known as Die Brücke (The Bridge), “wanted to create a radical art that could speak to modern audiences, which they characterized as young, vital, and

Though, throughout this time period, “the great majority of Americans disliked or even despised modern art,” it was an essential art movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and the “CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years,” creating a meaningful impact on the outcome of the Cold War (Saunders). “Abstract Expressionism stood for, above all else,

Expressionism appeared in poetry and drama in Germany and Austria just before World War I, and was influenced by Freudian Theories of the subconscious and Nietzsche’s anti-rationalism ideas. Expressionism was mostly popular during times of social change or spiritual crisis. This kind of art was a way for people to express their emotions and feelings during a time in the world when they didn’t know any other way to express themselves.

In this article, Pocock explores the roots of the Jacksonian movement in the town of Dayton, Ohio. The town was located on the Miami river; the town profited off merchants and shipping. The towns long established federalist elites running Dayton. In 1819, economic depression affected Dayton and showing its citizens the flaws of their leadership. Citizens wanted to see changed rallied around Skinner, own of a local newspaper who constantly attack the established class of Dayton. In the first run for office, he was defeated. Eventually gaining seats in the town government major changes developed. The towns image and infrastructure were improved. Laws and ordinance were enforced. People saw Jacksonians and the warrior for the common man and the indicator of change.

the protesters at this demonstration, “police were attacking men, women and children without discrimination.” (7) After this event, the civil rights movement occurred to help black people gain power and to minimise segregation in our culture and society. A large march was created led by Martin Luther King Jr and many other black political leaders of this era. (7) During this march civil right activists were attacked by police in a terrible way and killed for trying to share their opinions. (7) These protesters were protesting the death of an innocent black man killed by the police, Jimmie Lee Jackson. (7) Policemen attacked these protesters with guns and federal defense provided to them by the government along with tear gas bombs. (7) Not only was this march a stand up for Jimmie Lee Jackson but for black citizens voting rights. (8) This march raised awareness to the government and many white citizens that our country was still segregated at the time even though slavery was

Landscapes and abstraction are McCarthy’s strengths and although not necessarily unique to her as an artist, what is unique to her art and specifically this work is that it always seemed to be “out of step with the art world”. McCarthy focused on what she did best, landscape and abstraction, even when the art world had shifted largely to

is the most living influential postwar American artist moved beyond Abstract Expressionism toward Minimalism. He believes into shapes possibilities to be able to give you narrative sentence.

Abstraction is the creation of art without representation of objects, in which the artist has total freedom of the art that they are creating. I will be using three paintings from three different time periods in order to show the development and lasting effects of abstraction in the twentieth century. The first work that I will be looking at is Foghorns by Arthur Dove. I will use this piece to show the beginning of abstraction, and how ideas of abstraction were present before the movement began. The second painting that I will be looking at is Jackson Pollock’s Lucifer. I will be using this painting as an example of the height of abstraction in the 20th century and will be discussing Pollock’s influence on abstraction. The third piece of art I will be looking at is Many Mansion by Kerry James Marshall. I will use this work to show the remnants of Pollock’s influence, and the influence of abstraction in general, on art in the later half of the century. For the development of this paper I looked at two of the course readings. The first reading that I used was The Tradition of the New by Harold Rosenberg. I used this article to show how Foghorns by Arthur Dove relates to abstraction, and to show how ideas in creation of this painting can be linked to ideas of abstract art. The second reading that I used for this paper was The Legacy of Jackson Pollock by Alan Kaprow. I used this article to gain information about

During the 1930s, small movements began growing, based on the goal of achieving civil rights. The fight for equality began even further back, but during these years new movements grew and organizations stood in the spotlight once more for Mexican Americans and African Americans. Various events occurred in the 1930s, one being the monumental Great Depression that devastated numerous families. African Americans and Mexican Americans were affected as well, being denied relief in areas such as Houston because people believed the resources at hand should be given to the white race first before helping the minorities. In fact, treatment was very unfair, if you were a minority, you would be the first to be fired or the last to be hired. Unemployment

Art has evolved and regenerated itself many times during our human existence. These differences are defined through changes in styles under various theories. During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a style known as Expressionism became popular. During this movement the artists were trying to use their artwork as a tool of expression toward life. It was mainly dominant in the nonrepresentational arts, such as abstract visual arts and music. It also was probably one of the most difficult movements to understand because the whole point of the piece lay within the artist. Not only was it a movement, it defined the act of art as a whole. From the beginning of time, each work of art, excluding replicas, show a way of expressing

Marshall Berman’s take on modernity is presented in his book All That Is Solid Melts into Air whereby he focuses on its issues and the cultural attitudes and philosophies towards the modern condition. In doing so he shares his experiences of modernity post WWII in New York in the height of an economic boom and then more specifically of his childhood neighbourhood, the Bronx. In addition to expanded austerity, industrial and architectural development, the end of WWII proved to be a key period in world history and by extension the history of art. A talented group of artists emerged in result that had been influenced by an influx of established European artist who had fled to New York to escape fascist regimes in their homelands. More importantly these artists produced art that was at the heart of maelstrom Berman describes in regards to his experience of modernity. I aim to highlight the correlation between Berman’s experience of modernity and the emergence of a new American modernism. Modernity throughout this period was broken into two different compartments, hermetically sealed off from one another: "modernisation" in economics and politics, "modernism" in art, culture and sensibility. It’s through the lens of this dualism in which we recognise that both Berman and these artists try to make sense of the world around them by making their individual expressions that would re-conceptualise what it is to be modern in the twentieth century.

The investigation will evaluate to what extent did World War 1 influence the artists of the Dada movement? The investigation will look at primary sources by artists themselves, as well as secondary sources that may evaluate the artists and comment on any influences to the creation of Dadaism and the motives of artists. To be able to determine the extent to which World War 1 influenced the artists of the Dada movement, multiple influences will be looked at and examined to gage the appropriate influence. Given the Dada movement primarily occurred in America and parts of Europe, no sources outside of these areas will be used. Personal accounts and

Abstract Expressionism is making its comeback within the art world. Coined as an artist movement in the 1940’s and 1950’s, at the New York School, American Abstract Expressionist began to express many ideas relevant to humanity and the world around human civilization. However, the subject matters, contributing to artists, were not meant to represent the ever-changing world around them. Rather, how the world around them affected the artist themselves. The works swayed by such worldly influences, become an important article within the artists’ pieces. Subjectively, looking inward to express the artist psyche, artists within the Abstract Expressionism movement became a part of their paintings. Making the paintings more of a representation

hi His primary contribution was the ready-made. The ready-mades involved challenging the idea on what is art by discharging in ways that provoke the viewer to

Before minimalism in the 1950s, the dominant art movement in the United States was Abstract Expressionism. The artists at that time’s goal were to express their personal emotions through their artwork (“Introduction to Minimal Art”). One popular branch of Abstract Expressionism was called Action Painting. This style of painting was spontaneous; paint would be