ARTH 3539 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Theodoros Stamos, Robert Motherwell, Brushstrokes
13 Apr 2017
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Wednesday we will be watching a video on clyfford still. New york becomes the center of the art world because the usa becomes the superpower along with ussr. Abstract expressionism becomes the first truly, genuinely american art form. Before, many successful painters and artists were trained in europe, but abex artists were trained and practiced in america. Europe had discredited itself because of the war. New american self-consciousness, they wanted to make intrinsically. Mark rothko, white, yellow red on yellow, 1953. Wassily kandinsky, impressionism iii (concert), 1911---part of german expressionism, despite his being russian. Kandinsky pulls from actual scenes and abstracts them, whereas rothko portrays color fields. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. -wassily. Josef albers interaction of color/ homage to the square. Nina leen, theodoros stamos, jimmy ernst, barnett newman, james brooks, mark rothko,
