Abstract Expressionism in 8 Minutes: From 'Jack The Dripper' to Color Fields 🔵🟡
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- Опубликовано: 22 мар 2022
- What is Abstract Expressionism? How did it skyrocket in popularity across the globe, and why does it hold a dominant position in the history of modern art to this day? Who started it? Who celebrated it? And what was so radical about Jackson Polloсk's art that earned him a nickname "Jack the Dripper"? Let's find out in this episode from Curious Muse!
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Abstract expressionism is my favorite style of art. Number 32 by Jackson Pollock I like the best. He painted it in 1950 the year I was born.
Ab EX was the movement that resonated with me instantly. I could easily relate on a subconscious and intuitive level. Action and color field painting enabled me to break free from the corporate design work I was involved with- my professional career as an Art Director and graphic designer was limited as to what I wanted to accomplish aesthetically and emotionally. When I discovered Ab-Ex, it freed me and I began experimenting with painting and drawing. It didn't take long to realize that accomplishing this style of creating was an intuitive and natural endeavor. Thank you AB-EXers of the past, present and future!
Abs Exp is my favourite, you don't have an idea in advance, you just have your heart and feeling to support you on their magical ways. It brings you all over the painting and it gives you all the chances to express yourself. ❤
This is one of my favorite styles of art. 8
min well spent! Thanks!
Woohoo, so good to hear! 👍🏻 we have other styles on this channel too in case of interest! 😅
Love Rothko's approach , want to see them in real and experience an experience.
Rothko is the total opposite of Pollack.
there is something about the chaotic, unstructured, "randomness" of something like a Jackson Polloсk painting that is really calming and southing to me. as someone who is struggling with over thinking everything, and wanting to make them "perfect". stuff like Polloсk's art help with those felling of being "perfect", how you can make something so beautiful and interesting that's not "perfect", kind of like life. i often think about the scene in Ex Machina were they talk about Polloсk's art, and how over thinking can leave you to not make a single mark.
I totally agree with you
That's the thing... Action art has its virtues. Though I'm on the side of audience thinking most modern contemporary-expressionistic art is shit. And it's not because of its form, it's because it is a fake overproduced cop-out of actually expressing oneself. Lately I've noticed this trend of "bigger is better". I'm sure you have noticed it too. Galleries are becoming warehouses. That is, one without a studio won't stand a chance against funded studios with blobs the size of 6 meters times 2 meters to be noticed back to back. While I don't agree with street art most of the time, in current age and time graffiti is actually closest to modern expressionism as can be. Most walls become abstract contemporary art after 10 layers of different gangs and angst.
People say, "Oh, my kid could do that!" However, as an abstract expressionist painter, I can tell you that you really need to have an eye for color, space, and brush strokes. Everything has to be balanced, although I can't tell you what that balance is. You just know.
Agree! Do you have a website where we can see your work? 😍
@@CuriousMuse That's what I'm trying to do right now, but Squarespace is not being nice to me.
I understand your explanation, but what makes a great when there are so many who paint in abstract expressionism? There has to be some element of hype; for instance, Guggenheim's championing of the early greats.
@@davidadams2395 Well, you know what they say. Success depends on who you know. Or at least that’s what I say.
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😄👍 Nevertheless, I might try my hand at it. If anything, it could teach me to loosen up in my painting.
This is very influential, informative, insightful, and inspirational! Great video! 😊👍
I love it. Bring me more. I'm an abstract expressionist painter , and never felt comfortable with that label. to me my artwork was always a spiritual experience and close to me emotionally. So it always felt solid and true. Not distant. I'm more comfortable with the term now, A little better. I've always loved the artist you showed. Give me more. I love the jazz music also. You make me feel good. ❤💛🧡💙
Action or color field painting they're both amazing to me. If you'd asked me 15 or 20 years ago I would have said they were junk, but somewhere along the line my eyes began to rest on them with ease and I was totally captivated by them. By the way, I love this blog!
Same here - years ago would have said something totally different about them 😅 vs now!
Fantastic Video! I enjoy both action painting and color field paintings. I was drawn to them before I even know what they were or who did them.
Thank you for the art lesson on AbEx!!! I love both styles - I am drawn to bright colors and how they look together. I also love Jackson’s wild and crazy “throwing paint around” style!
You’re welcome! 🙏🏻
I don’t get what people don’t get. If you don’t like it that’s okay. But it’s still art. It can be arresting, beautiful, action oriented, moody, all sorts of things you can get lost in.
What’s wrong with liking art because you like how it looks?! It’s a visual medium! If people hate the lack of order and representation then there’s so much art out there for them.
I like abstract expressionism because it allows me the viewer to project onto it. It feels like a pure relationship that involves my own memories and preferences for color.
So what if there is no narrative to broader message. Art can be beautiful and be decorative and still have meaning. I don’t know why people think only renaissance painters are artists.
Sure the art takes different skills and evokes different things but both are valid forms of artistic expression. I love it and I don’t think it has to be endlessly conceptual.
Do I like how this looks? Do I want to keep looking? That’s what matters.
Love it, love everything about it! Thanks.
I just had to do a presentation today about minimalism and talked all about the connections between it and abstract expressionism. I’d love to see you guys cover minimalism next!
"Oa just founded nano préorganic neo naturalism workin' at the nano scale level.To be able to be inspired by my work You 'll need a supersonic microscope."
Bud Mcblohb
Thanks for the suggestion - handy as we plan our 2023 content!
What has abstract expressionism got to do with minimalism?
I would put up nothing and then be outraged and tell the audience they do not understand.
For 16 years I gave tours in a major art museum. I frequently was assigned tours highlighting the names in this documentary. Mine were considered among the best, owing to the fact that I was aided by an art professor who knew them personally. This was critical because otherwise I found, and still do, though I could never state on a tour, their work to be pretentious, empty and a dead end, which monopolized the art world for far too long.
Very interesting - thank you for sharing!
I love abstract and color field painting - I didn’t even know that was a term - but I guess it is now.
Good quick overview here - would like to see more on this subject.
Hello. I like my art work. I don't compare it to anyone. I like your video. I enjoyed every art work showcased here. I like everyone of them. Thank you for sharing all their styles.
Wonderful to hear -- thanks for watching this video!
For me, it's Joan Mitchell. I absolutely love her work.
Me too!
I don't
nice, when I was a teen for the Senior Project I had to pick a subject, I chose Impressionism at the time, I'm an artist and have gone through many changes, and now my stuff has turned to abstract expressionism, and I think it was fighting with me for awhile, the colors were spot on, bright and really evoke a mood, but the objects I was painting wasn't clicking, I love paint, and with what I'm doing now it shows. I loved this video it gave me more info about what exactly abstract expressionism is.
Good luck with painting - so nice you enjoy it!
Insightful and informative
Wonderful 😍
Wonderful video. Abstract expressionism is my favorite style. Nothing says therapy like making a mess, and trying to figure out what to make of it later. It's meticulous in its very own way.
It's the ENFP of the art world
We love ENFP ❤️
That's funny because I am an enfp and I paint abstract expressionism.
@@karlabritfeld7104 same, it's the colors the feelings and the vibes in general, something quite relaxing and pleasing to en ENFP
The purely abstractionist vision of spiritual and visual unification has missed, and, in fact, further alienated most of our viewers. We new Artists must now build a visually sense-i-cal "Bridge" in our shared visual language.
I love your videos Please do more ! Have a nice day everyone !
Thank you! ☺️
Very Informative thank you
I've heard, that Lee Krasner, a wife of Pollock, was also a remarkable artist, but devoted all of her pasion and strength to her husbend, so that we hear about her much less, than it should be.
Female artists have always been poo pooed and given less press than male artists, even though most female artists are much better.
Saludos, gracias por compartir interesante video. Me encanta estilo porque lleva un mensaje social que construye además de la sublime expresión del artista, sus emociones, vivencias, expresadas en el lienzo y con la utilidad de materiales que favorecen su lenguaje uníco de cada artista.
You have opened my eyes further 🙏
Did we? Ohhhhh ☺️
Abstract Impressionism arrived in Australia with a bang when our National Gallery acquired Pollock's "Blue Poles" (No 11, 1952) in 1973, for the mind-blowing sum of $1.2 Mill AUD (about $900,000 US a the time?). The purchase required sign-off from the Australian Govt, and caused quite a stink.
We've never been the same since.
And Blue Poles is probably worth 100x as much now. At least.
Yes because Jackson Pollack is dead.
Great video, thanks! 🔵🟡
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Did someone mention abstract expressionism as being the ENFP of the art world? I'd say rather, action paintings are ENFP (extroversion and perceptive - expressive, explosive, free forms, spontaneous) , whereas color field paintings are more INFJ (introversion and judging - meditative, controlled and deliberate).
Ah, thank you for your explanation. I kinda know why I like color field paintings more. I couldn’t answer myself the why before.
Funny enough I am an enfp and I paint abstract expressionism.
I prefer a pleasing looking image, no matter it is,abstract or realistic, as long as it gives me that vibe,i like it
Very beautiful.
It was amazing
I want to dislike Jackson Pollock's works, bu t can't. There's a blind guy that paints the most incredible displays of natural light streaming through an otherwise traditional landscape. His color choices look noting like life-like colors you'd expect. However the mathematics in the way he uses them brings out some sort of natural order and a huge sense of awe.
My favorite piece of art associated with Jackson Pollock is the acting job by Ed Harris and the scene where he is riding his bike back from the store to get beer. Someone honks at him as he is peddling and he tries to wave back while drinking. He tries to wedge the beer so he can wave and ends up hitting a bump, crashing forward slowly and breaking all the full beer bottles. The man could not stop making his famous marks, not even on the sidewalks.
Late to the party but not the art! I began my artistic journey around the age of 10 doing exactly action Ab EX! Long since gotten away from it for the most part, but I still throw a good fit once or twice a year!
Very Nice..
Thanks.
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Really good video
Please make a video on African Art
Great idea - also we have a video about non-western art on this channel which can be interesting to watch
Now, I like Pollock, but you did go for a cheap shot example here :) To explain Pollock's structure you used “Mural”(1943) as an example, which was the shift-over point for him making sense to going full blown action art. It was before the "drip".
Thanks for this very important clarification! ☺️👍🏻
@@CuriousMuse :D I hope you understand I wasn't nit-picky for the sake, just happened to do some research and the same image popped up... I think it was the New York Times article.
Motherwell & Kline, my very favorites!
Rothko is my favorite painter
thank you! i really enjoyed the video and i also learnt something new again. i would like to see videos about the great performance artist Marina Abramovic or about genius directors such as David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Stanley Kubrick, Tarkovszkij etc. or about not well known music genre like reggae, blues, funk... !!!
Thank you for watching! Great suggestions 👍🏻 By the way, we plan to have a live conversation about Stanley Kubrick on this channel on March 30 - tune in to listen!
Like! No... I LOVE Abstract Expressionism... Color Field on mine! Rothko is my dude!
Thanks for doing this video!
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you need a twitter account, it is a great platform for putting out bits of information. I will love to see it
Great idea 👍🏻
Sone people back om the day - some people thought this was stupid.
Pollock's works look wild but super subtle cause they have structure? I see, and Mark Rothko's works are with a sense of atmospheric depth and intended to be tear-jerkers like Mozart's
compositions? That's why maybe he put an emphasis on silence.
But most of Mozart pieces including that I like are too jaunty in melody
to make my face look bathed in tears. What should I do?
Maybe I should come back after listening to some of Mozart's accomplishments with sublime beauty that could help me shed tears next time I look at Rothko's < Rothko Chapel> or on your channel .😉
By the way, Alfred H. Barr Jr, allegedly a very supportive senior curator at MOMA whose name is not mentioned here was no
less a big help than Peggy Guggenheim. So I heard .
These American abstract expressionists must have been very lucky to have them both, one very supportive financially and the other in curation service.
Thanks again.. it was very informative..☺
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You're overthinking. Rothko was introverted and ended up committing suicide. Pollack died in a car crash while driving drunk. Two different styles, two different people.
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Two totally different styles, right.
I think Rothko's signature style,with its ambiguity of boundaries and color-matching, creates a mysterious mood. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to call it a sort of primitivism or elemental, perhaps due to his use of colours. I've been drawn to his use of color and composition for the past few months.
This is good and ❤🎉
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may baby can do abstract too, its so easy
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nice video
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At the end of the world, most these works will be long left behind while countless works before them are absconded to Mars.
❤ Rothko
Action!
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2.99£ is art, instead of 3, 2.99 is more art . :) Abstract don't have to have meaning, randomness, spontaneous decisions were and always will be norms. It's abstract that is why it's abstract. No need to prove anything to anyone same goes for everyone hashtag random
I’m watching you from Morocco , do the Arabic caption in all of your videos please
Thank you for watching - absolutely, we’ll make sure Arabic captions are added on all videos (they are on some at the moment)
@@CuriousMuse thank you so much I’ll suggest your channel to all my friends
Awful amazing and soothing are also very nice, colorfull paintings performed by an elefant I stupidly forgott his name.
And what about Janet Sobel?
Huge contributions and sadly often described as a “Forgotten Female Artist Who Influenced Jackson Pollock”. Hopefully we’ll be able to make a video about Janet one day 🙏🏻
I like working in Ab-Ex. I think it was killed off before they had the chance to go into another generation and take it to it's highest level. As an illustrator and painter, I have a harder time connecting with Pop because it feels too much like illustration and less about creative art. Though Pop works great with digital communication and all other forms of illustration. Just wish it would stay there, where it belongs.
Personally, I don't get this style. Especially when it comes to Color Field paintings, while I hear they were meant to evoke strong emotional response from the observers, I have always found intellectually pretentious and they were never able to connect with me at any level.
To each its own, I suppose.
Question: Have you ever been tasked with sitting next to someone who has recently taken up painting and wants to share photos of their (action) "Abstract Paintings" ? I find a common denominator among these "artists" -- conversation hogs, little to no interest in my artistic training, lack of awareness. Crickets when I stop with the comments/observation.
..." do you like abstract painting?"..."which style do you prefer: action painting or color field painting?"... keep making money, "curious" etc.etc.
I wonder if Jackson Pollock had a laugh at the art world by creating nonsensical "art" by dripping paints on a canvass and watching to see what are "experts" made out of it? I wonder .....
I wonder too… 🤔
I was irascible until Nicolas stole my heart.
Such a good outcome 😅👍🏻
Funny how they always omit Gorky
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If Pollock survived his drunken crash he would have been charged with vehicular manslaughter
Do I connect with this form of expressionism in a deep emotional sense? Hmm…no…I try to ignore it as much as possible
If you would dump the screen shots and graphics and instead show more art, this would be much stronger.
As a art history nerd look at my pic lol abstract expressionism is about the act of making so in music this made no sheet music spontaneous music dah jazz! Jazz is just freestyling artist... abstract expressionism
Baroque + expressionism = supermarket aesthetics
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Art must be complicated and hard to make in order for it to be art. Complex things are better than simple things. You can't just make something that's simple and not complicated. Only complicated things are beautiful. Realism is very hard and complicated so it's the most beautiful form of art. Abstract art is simple and easy to do some it't the worst form of art. Why are people spending millions of dollars are art. They should be spending millions of dollars buying complicated things like sports cars and sneakers. It's kinda like when people make simple food with only a couple of ingredients; it just cannot be good. If you make food it has too super complex and use hundreds of ingredients in order that it tastes good. Simple food is just plain bad. If someone offers me food that has fewer than 50 ingredient I scoff and laugh in their face. Simpletons is what I call them. They are unable to appreciate complicated food that has double digit ingredient numbers. Same goes with painting. People who enjoy abstract art are unable to appreciate very complicated pieces of art. Take that "modern art" LOL. I bet you feel dumb haha.
Interesting but debatable? Why simple art is the worst form of art? What is art?
only known in usa..
Well, originated in New York City but it did become a dominant trend in Western painting during the 1950s.
I have no cat 😊
Action Painting established that art is in the viewer, and Color Theory took this farther and put art in the mechanistically constructed mind. I see both approaches as potentially fraudulent because they required explanations; sophistry and little else. The public was essentially told it could not understand art and needed sophisticates to explain it. Thus realized, art would continue on to enlighten us all. As an artist I have learned to eschew explanations given by non-artists, who will enlighten us with their academic understandings. Art is, and it is without the help of auction houses, investment schemes and cocktail party sophistry. This art leads nowhere. Every one of these painters ran out of ideas. Pollack just ran off the road....
Best comment of all!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Button. Not buh-in.
"Together with" is redundant.
Thank you 🙏🏻
And again we see even in an art filed, taken by man😏While woman serving the whole family , man just playing with colours
Hopefully it’s quickly changing!
Jackson Pollack sold himself out doing paintings for money. He hated those drip paintings. After s few years he refused to do any more. What does that tell you? His earlier paintings were very good. But a big gallery owner wanted him to come up with some different crap so that she could make his work into a commodity. The art world is bullshit.
Art is art - some created due to creativity and passion, some due to a desire to experiment and some just for money. It’s on the viewer to decide what they like or not.
Abstract art is lazy and talentless art. It's a way for people with no artist ability, or people too lazy to learn, to be able to call themselves artist. I'm sorry if that hurts your feels, and I'm sorry if you poured your heart and soul into throwing paint at a canvas without a speck of ability or technique. But it's the truth.
Sometimes it’s not about the talent but about the artists life, experience and story they put in their work.
@@CuriousMuse I so humbly apologize. I NEVER mean to offend, even though it may come off that way. But I myself have spent countless hours studying the rules and laws of art, color, and theory, not to mention the thousands of dollars in art schooling, just so some EMO with a broken heart can splash black and red paint at a canvas, and compare himself to me. I'm so sorry, truly I am, if that hurts their feelings. But it is what it is. Farting into a snare drum does not make you a musician.
Абстрактный импрессионизм,собрал вокруг себя всех,кто не умеет рисовать.....
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Any art that the artists themselves have no clue about is not art. Its guilt shaming the viewer to believe they are not sophisticated enough to understand. by buying this kind of complete hogwash the user feels like they belong. These abstractionists with no talent whatsoever are playing with people's desire to belong
The Emporer's New Clothes
Its it hard to understand a nonsense everytime made with feelings and no painting limitations. They can't understand my painting and tell me that this is not abstract
\joke\
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@@CuriousMuse Yeah nothing to reply to... explaining a dripping painter, not sustainable.😁 Andy Warhol, another Hamparte and not a painter but a printer.
The video games I play have more artistic merit than most of these paintings.
ironic economy
When a video begs for likes and subs and hit the dum notification bell at the beginning it’s invariably crap, so I block the channel
Hope you feel better now 😅
Jackson Pollok poses great subtlety ?? LOL, what a jocke in spanish there's a term we call "Hamparte" and it's define by someone's art that can easily be reproduced by other person with no talent, this is the real Problem with Pollok... no talent at all. His paintings are just a drip on canvas and experts pull out their behinds such weak arguments to explain what has no meaning, please!!! Everything that is not art can be called Hamparte and Jackson Pollok reproduces no great art at all, no matter how you put it.
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It skyrocketed by insulting and degrading human dignity lol
In other words anyone could do Abstract Art. There's no training or talent in this work. It's an idea that looks like the artist can't be bothered to learn the technique in Art. Turner went to train in art and you could say some of his work is abstract. Rembrandt had a brilliant eye and was a painter in realism. All the Italian painters, i.e. Michael Angelo, and many more, painted art that shows how to draw and apply paint. People queue for hours to see the Mona Lisa. Van Gough, and so many more in galleries world wide. Abstract Art in my opinion is a lazy way of applying paint on canvas. 😂😂😂😂
search for Fayga Ostrower, her work is beautiful, I only understood abstract after her works/books
You don't explain what is Abstract Expressionism you just tell the history of it. Those are not the same things :)))
Abstract paintings must be the biggest con ever. I just couldn't help but to burst out laughing when I saw this rubbish that is called art. Leonardo da Vinci must be having nightmares to see these con artists messing on a canvas and calling it art Absolute garbage!!!
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@@CuriousMuse So that's your response to my comment? ONE emoji? Don't you have anything intelligent to say? Like challenging my comment at least. Or do you admit that abstract paintings are pretend art. Show me any person in the world that cannot imitate Jackson Pollock's "art". You don't need any talent to mess around with paint like he did.
I am an artist bro. I paint with oil and all sorts of other traditional medias, both representative and abstract, as well I have many digital audio-visual works and whatnot.
You simplify and doesn't not have the sensitivity to that topic. And that's fine, I don't like rock and metal music for instance. Like... I can't stand it. But I am fully aware that there is ton of rock/metal geniuses and that it's not objectively bad music, although I can't listen to it.
Also, obviously the amount of mediocre rock/metal music is enormous. But again, I fully understand that whatever makes rock/metal music good doesn't rest on that predominant majority.
Did I care to understand what makes rock/metal music good? No. No. I simply can't stand the format, the atmosphere, anything about it. But man. I fully understand that my lack of enthusiasm, interest and sensitivity doesn't mean rock/metal music is bad.
@@LyubomirIko Unlike you, I like rock music and music in general. I also like and enjoy art (across different mediums). However, no one is going to convince me that making swirls, stripes, drips and splotches on a canvas is art. You telling me that I simplify and does not have the sensitivity to that topic is condescending. How do you know that? Do you realise that I have a right to my opinion as you have to yours. You making an analogy by you not liking rock music but that others may have a taste for it is so lame and unoriginal. You could have compressed every thing you wanted to say in 2 or 3 three sentences, but you preferred to write half a book, because you think it may make you seem intellligent and smart. However, it just displayed your arrogance and your attitude of superiority and your perceived excellent penmanship. You don't impress me. In fact, I despise your type that think you are better than other people and should guide them how to live their lives. You, my dear sir, can go piss somewhere else. You're a nothing person.