ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Color Field, Lauren Bacall, Mark Rothko
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[the canvas is] an arena in which to act, rather than as a space to reproduce redesign, analyze or. Express. -harold rosenberg: sand painting, abstract expressionism: painterly, expressive, non-objective, post wwii, the us government take advantage of the artworks to express, pollock, full fathom five (1947) It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. Communists (1954: black mountain college (1933-1957, progressive liberal arts college near asheville, north carolina, students build their own furniture, create their own garden, watershed. Josef albers teaching color therapy: rauschenberg, cunningham, fuller, diversity quite a few black student, jacob lawrence and gwendlyn lawrence, rauschenberg, red (1955, critic comment how violent it is, murder scene. Is a flat painting, the subject matter should be neutral: neo-dada.
