Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism and Frank O’Hara’s Writing While researching everything about American cotemporary poet Frank O’Hara, it became very apparent that art was a driving force in both his personal life and his professional writing career. This can be proved by merely trying to find information about him in the literature section in a library. Only his collected poems can be found, but much more information about Frank O’Hara can be found in the art section. Many art books dedicate entire

Expressionism emerged in Germany as a response to the growing anxiety about humanity's place in the world and its spiritual detachment. The term is occasionally suggestive of angst, a mixed feeling of fear and anxiety. What happened during the early 20th century that caused people to become so distressed? Expressionism shifted the artist's focus from the natural, external world, to the world inside the artist, concerned more with feelings and emotional state. Through this medium, artists expressed

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,

Abstract Expressionism In the early fifties, the United States witnessed the emergence of the hydrogen bomb and Miltown sedatives, a Cold War repression and consumerism began to shape the post-war society. In this unshaped world, the abstract expressionists materialized their desperate striving for spontaneity, freedom and the re-discovery of self and the human context. Their romantic, anti-capitalist hope, with all its weaknesses and contradictions, was telling them that the values embedded

that an if audience has to think about the meaning then art is kept alive. In his essay Avant-Garde and Kitsch (1939), Greenburg states that painting should be a sensuous experience about paint on canvas, color relationships and texture. Abstract Expressionism would be the first Avant-Guarde movement to emerge out of North America. This movement was about gestural paint strokes, and artists realizing physic depth of the unconscious mind. Greensburg was a huge advocate for this movement, but as art bleed

The Encyclopedia Britannica reads “Abstract Expressionism, broad movement in American painting that began in the late 1940s and became a dominate trend in Western painting during the 1950s.” Abstract Expressionism was the first art movement to emerge from within the United States. During World War II, European refugees came to the US to avoid persecution; many of which settled in New York City. Among those seeking a safe haven where artist, writers and poets as well as collectors of the arts. Paris

The conflict and its aftermath had been at the underpinnings of the movement that became known as summary Expressionism. Jackson Pollock, among different summary Expressionists, anxiously aware about human irrationality and vulnerability, expressed their worries in an summary artwork that chronicled the ardor and exigencies of present day life. With the aid of the

German Expressionism in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari David Hudson from GreenCine.com argues that, “[Horror]…the social milieu is sketched and the political and psychological undercurrents of German Expressionism are drawn out.” Robert Weine’s classic horror film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” is no exception as it is based on the main character Francis (Friedrich Fehér) and his recollections of the murderous Dr. Caligari, and his somnambulist partner in crime, Cesare. This film being noted as the

During the Modern Era of the late 19th century and the early 20th century, many artists were turning away from the idea of painting realistic images. Photography, having just been developed for public use a few decades earlier, made artists of the day focus less on painting as an precise copy of what is seen, as had been done for centuries. Since the Middle Ages, most artists painted exact representations of life. Starting in the late 1800s, though, many artists were starting to embrace the theory

German Expressionism was a trending art movement from 1910-1940. The movement started in Germany, and after World War 1 spread outside of the country. The movement was focused on a few different themes: early on during Expressionism, painters rejected the old, conservative traditions and styles of art academies and instead used strong nonrealistic colors and distorted, simplified forms. This type of art was meant to surprise the viewer and evoke an emotional response. Another important theme was