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Wilem de Koonig. Woman, 1. 1950
-at this time you could paint anything, there was no censoring in America because U.S. is a free country
-action painter
-highly energized, harsh treatment
-assertion of the medium |
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Jackson Pollock. Autumn Rhythm, No. 30. 1950
-Jack the dripper, action painter also
-assertion of the mediium
-used house paint |
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Franz Kline. Chief. 1950
-action painter
-progressed into abstract art
-harsh black strokes
-many of these just repeated |
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Mark Rothko. No. 7 (Green and Maroon). 1950
-colorfield painter
-converyed emotion
-ecstacy, tradgey, and doom
-watered down paints
-rags not brushes
-very depressed guy and mysterious too, killed himself |
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Mark Rothko. Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas. 1960
-non-denominational church, it was mostly for meditatiing
-his paintings helped that
-gradiations of black |
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Barnett Newman. Vir. Heroicus Sublimus. 1950
-zips into other world
-critics didn't like it in his time
-sublime herioc man
-overwhelming |
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Helen Frankenthaler. Mountains and Sea. 1950
-stands out from previous abstractionists
-stained painter, but interested in color
-watered down paint
-you can see the pencil through the paint |
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Morris Louis. Kaf. 1960
-jewish, uses hebrew alphabet to name
-doesn't paint entire canvas
-overlapping color evokes emotion |
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