Artist: Willam de Kooning (1912-1997) © Artchive
The colour field painterswere concerned with color and shape in order to create peaceful and spiritual paintings with no representative subject matter. They created simple compositions with large areas of a single colour intended to produce a ’contemplative or meditational response in the viewer.
Kenneth Noland, Beginning, magna on canvas painting by Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1958.Kenneth Noland working in Washington, DC., was a pioneer of the color field movement in the late 1950s.
Mark Rothko, No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1953, 115 cm × 92 cm (45 in × 36 in).Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange), 1949, 85 3/8" × 65" (216.5 × 164.8 cm), oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art.An example of Rothko's late period.
Jack Bush, Big A, 1968. Jack Bush was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter, born in Toronto, Ontario in 1909. Bush became closely tied to the two movements that grew
out of the efforts of the abstract expressionists: Color Field Painting and Lyrical Abstraction
Antonina Osipova
Cubism
Cubism is a 20th century avant-garde art movement, begun by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. In cubist artworks the objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in a abstracted form, instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint. The artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often surfaces intersect at seemingly random angels. The background and objects interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space. The most famous cubism-artists are Pablo Picasso, Huan Gris, Fernan Lege, Marcel Dushan.
Jean
Metzinger, La
Femme au Cheval, The Rider, Woman with a horse,
1911-1912
Pablo
Picasso, Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon,
1907
Juan
Gris, Portrait
of Picasso,
1912
Marina Yambarsheva
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement and artistic style that was founded in 1924 by Andre Breton.
Surrealism is the XX century art or literature, in which an artist or writer connects unrelated images and objects in a strange way. Surrealism style uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical comprehensibility.
The movement was begun primary in Europe, centered in Paris, and attracted many of the members of the Dada community.
Influenced by the psychoanalytical work of Freud and Jung, there are similarities between the surrealist movement and the symbolist movement of the late XIX century.
Some of the greatest artists of the XX century became involved in the surrealist movement, and the group included Giorgio de Chirico, Man Ray, Rene Magritte and many others.
The surrealist movement spread across the globe.
The
greatest known surrealist in the art is the world famous Salvador
Dali.
Artyom Shishkin
Impressionism is a movement in French painting, sometimes called optical realism because of its almost scientific interest in the actual visual experience and effect of light and movement on appearance of objects.
Radicals in their time, early Impressionists violated the rules of academic painting. They began by constructing their pictures from freely brushed colours that took precedence over lines and contours, following the example of painters such as Eugène Delacroix and J. M. W. Turner. They also painted realistic scenes of modern life, and often painted outdoors. Previously, still lifes and portraits as well as landscapes had usually been painted in the studio. The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting en plein air. They portrayed overall visual effects instead of details, and used short "broken" brush strokes of mixed and pure unmixed colour—not blended smoothly or shaded, as was customary—in order to achieve the effect of intense colour vibration. Impressionist motto - human eye is a marvelous instrument. Impact worldwide was lasting and huge. The name 'Impressionists' came as artists embraced the nickname a conservative critic used to ridicule the whole movement. Painting 'Impression: Sunrise' by Claude Monet fathered derogatory referral. Impressionist fascination with light and movement was at the core of their art. Exposure to light and/or movement was enough to create a justifiable and fit artistic subject out of literally anything. Impressionists learned how to transcribe directly their visual sensations of nature, unconcerned with the actual depiction of physical objects in front of them. Two ideas of Impressionists are expressed here. One is that a quickly painted oil sketch most accurately records a landscape's general appearance. The second idea that art benefits from a naive vision untainted by intellectual preconceptions was a part of both the naturalist and the realist traditions, from which their work evolved.
Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes; open composition; emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time); common, ordinary subject matter; the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience; and unusual visual angles.