Abstract+Expressionism

Pollock's Autumn Rhythm shows his drip pianting sytle of work.

Jackson Pollock's "Number 27" is a good show of Abstract Expressionism in the way that it doesn't represent any type of object. It is more than just a picture or a representation of something that existed.

The movement's name is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionism with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus and Synthetic Cubism. Additionally, it has an image of being rebellious, anarchic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, nihilistic. In practice, the term is applied to any number of artists working (mostly) in New York who had quite different styles and even to work that is neither especially abstract nor expressionist Pollock's energetic Action painting, with their "busy" feel, are different, both technically and aesthetically, from the violent and grotesque //Women// series of Willem de Kooning's Figurative art paintings and the rectangles of color in Mark Rothko's Color Fieldpaintings (which are not what would usually be called expressionist and which Rothko denied were abstract). Yet all three artists are classified as abstract expressionists.

Kline's Mahoning painting differs alot from pollock's work yet it is also classfied as abstract works of art. The premise behind these paintings was to represent nothing and yet something deep with the subconscious of there mind.

Kline's untitled piece is a good example of the different types of expressionism used. Although the two are very similar, in Mahoning he uses no color, only black, he changes it by using different colors and taking away the geometric shapes.

Rothko's piantings of colored squares were to show straight up emotion the one above is called orange and yellow while the one below is called four darks in red.



Kooning's works of art show these distored females in what he saw as abstract. the one on the left is called woman l while the one on the right is called woman and bicyle