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American Abstract Expressionism “The New York School”

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American Abstract Expressionism “The New York School”

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  1. THE END OF THE AGE OF EUROPE AND EMERGENCE OF NEW YORK SCHOOL(left) Hitler occupies Paris, 1940Artists in the Artists in Exile show at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, March, 1942. Left to right, first row: Matta, Ossip Zadkine, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger; second row: André Breton, Piet Mondrian, André Masson, Amédée Ozenfant, Jacques Lipchitz, Pavel Tchelitchew, Kurt Seligmann, Eugene Berman

  2. END OF THE AGE OF EUROPE AND EMERGENCE OF THE NEW YORK SCHOOLMax Ernst, Europe After the Rain, 1940-42, oil on canvas, 21 x 58,” Surrealist automatist technique of decalcomania, which involves pressing paint between two surfaces

  3. American Abstract Expressionism“The New York School” After World War Two New York City replaces Paris as the capital of the art world

  4. “The Irascibles” (Abstract Expressionists), Life Magazine cover story, 1951 Theodoros Stamos, Jimmy Ernst, Barnett Newman, James Brooks, Mark Rothko, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne

  5. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST ACTION PAINTING(left) Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) painting, 1950 (right) Willem de Kooning (1904–97) painting Woman I, 1951

  6. Willem de Kooning making an early study for Woman I, c.1950-1951(right) Woman I, 1950-2

  7. Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1950-2Venus of Willendorf, limestone, painted with ochre, 4 3/4 inches, ca. 25,000 years old

  8. De Kooning in studio, Springs, NY, 1960s

  9. Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956) painting in Springs NY studio, 1950Action Painting – American Abstract Expressionism“I believe the easel picture to be a dying form.” (Guggenheim Application, 1947) James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause 8 August 1949 issue of Life magazine: first artist to become a media celebrity

  10. (below) Jackson Pollock, Pasiphae, 1943(right) André Masson(French Surrealist immigrant to NYC), Pasiphae, 1943Surrealism (subjective mythos and automatism) and Jungian psychoanalysis: the collective unconscious

  11. Jackson Pollock, Guardians of the Secret, oil on canvas 1943, SFMoMA

  12. Jackson Pollock, Mural, 19'10" x 8‘1“, 1943, for Peggy Guggenheim’s apartment

  13. Hans Namuth, photographs and film stills of Pollock Painting, 1951 http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/250

  14. Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist),1950, oil, enamel, and aluminum on canvas, 7’ 3” x 9’10 “, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

  15. American Abstract ExpressionismChromatic ExpressionismPainters of the Sublime Mark Rothko

  16. Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774 -1840), Monk by the Seashore, 1909-10, German Romantic Sublime

  17. Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960, o/c, 9.48 x 9.70 ft, SFMoMA

  18. "The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them." Mark Rothko

  19. (left) Mark Rothko, Untitled [Blue, Green, and Brown],1952(right) Rothko in studio on West 53rd Street Studio 1952

  20. Rothko Chapel suite of paintings, 1965-66, De Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, 1970 “I wanted to paint both the finite and the infinite…. I was always looking for something more.” - Mark Rothko

  21. David Smith (American, 1906 -1965)Smith at “Terminal Iron Works, Boiler-Tube Makers and Ship-Deck.” (Brooklyn NYC), iron-welding workshop used as Smith’s studio between 1933-1940

  22. David Smith, (left) Jurassic Bird, painted steel, 1945(right top) Specter of Profit, 1946 steel and stainless steel (right below) Smith’s notebook sketches from the Museum of Natural History

  23. (left) David Smith, Australia, 1951, painted steel, 6' 7 x 8'12" x 16" (on cinder block base) “Drawing in space”(right) Julio Gonzalez (Spanish, 1876-1942), Woman Combing Her Hair, 1932(below center) PabloPicasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Head of a Woman, 1933

  24. David Smith around 1960, "drawing in space“ welding, construction, assemblage process: Surrealist & Action Painting automatism, spontaneity rather than preconception(right) Picasso, Guitar, 1914, sheet metal and wire (created after the cardboard Maquette for Guitar, 1912, shown on the wall of his studio with collages.

  25. Smith, Hudson River Landscape, detail and two views, 1951“Drawing in Space” (2-D perception?)

  26. Smith, Tanktotems, 1951-2; (center top) Picasso, Bull’s Head, 1943; (center below) photo of tank tops c.1951) – anthropomorphism, found materials assemblage welding

  27. David Smith, Zig IV, painted steel, 1963

  28. Voltri series, 1962, 27 welded sculptures in 30 days

  29. David Smith, (left) Cubi XXVII, 1965, 111” H; (center) Cubi XVII, 1963, stainless steel Detail showing polished surface “gesture”

  30. Smith surveying his “personages” at Bolton landing, 1963 Smith died 2 years later in a pickup truck crash.The “Tragic Generation”

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