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Impressionism - a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized
chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of
light on objects. It was disliked by the traditional artistic community because it was said to be
resemble a sketch more than an actual painting
Example: Impression, Sunrise – Claude Monet

Expressionism, artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the
subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. The artist
accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the
vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.
Example:
The Scream, tempera and casein on cardboard by Edvard Munch, 1893

Abstractionism – is the same of expressionism. Expressionism is about emotion while

abstractionism is logical and rational. The concept of abstractionism is space-time and relativity. It
involves Analyzing, detaching, selecting, and simplyfying. Abstractionism is a departure from
reality and it is made of the relationship of forms and colors.

Representational abstractionism
Artists reduced a scene into geometrical shapes, patterns, lines, angles, textures and swirls of
color. Depicting still – recognizable subjects to pure abstractionism where no recognizable subject
could be discerned.
Example:
Oval still life (Le Violon) – George Braque 1914

Abstractionism Art Styles

Cubism – it’s a style derived from the cube, a three-dimensional geometric figure composed of
strictly measured lines, planesn and angles. In contrast, the cubists analyzed their subjects basic
geometrical forms, and broke them up into a series of planes. Then they re-assembled these
planes, tilting and interlocking them in different ways.

Example:
The Three musician by Pablo Picasso

Futurism – Began in Italy in the early 1900s. They admired the motion, force, speed, and strength
of mechanical forms.
Example:
Dancer in Pigalle by Gino Severini

Mechanical Style – In this style, basic forms such as planes, cones, spheres, and cylinders are all
fit together precisely and neatly in their appointed places.
Example:
Fernand Leger
Mechanical Elements
Nonobjectivism – from the term “non-object”, works in this style did not refer to recognizable
objects or forms in the outside world. Lines, shapes, and colors were used in a cool, impersonal
approached that aimed for balance, unity and stability. Colors were mainy black, white, and the
primaries

Famous artists of Abstractionism

1. Georges Braque – Braques work throughtout his life was focused on still life and means of
viewing objects from various perspectives through color, line and texture. He shows balance and
harmony in his compositions.

2. Pablo Picasso – invented the collage and made major contribution to SYMBOLISM (to express
individual emotion experience through subtle and suggestive use of highly symbolized language)
and SURREALISM (an art style with an illogical, subsconcious dream world beyond the logical,
conscious and physical one)

3. Gino Severini – created the painting “Dancer,” through drawing of parallel between the sea and
the human form.

4. Fernand Leger – His style varied considerably from decade to decade, fluctuating between
figuration and abstraction, and showing influence from a wide range of sources. Leger worked in a
variety of media including paint, ceramic, films, theather and dance sets, glass, print and book
arts. His style varied, his work was consistently graphic, favoring primary colors, pattern and bold
form.

5. Piet Mondrain – is recognized for the purity if his abstractions and methodical practice. He
radically simplified the elements of his paintings to reflect what he saw as the spiritual language
within his canvases. In his best known paintings from the 1920s, Mondrian reduced his shapes to
lines and rectangles, pure abstraction and use of asymmetrical balance.
6. Jackson Pollock – He created roiling vortexes of color and line, and painting realist murals in the
1930s.

7. Mark Rothko – Mark’s painting illustrate motif of soft, rectangular forms floating on a stained
field of color and was heavily influenced by mythology and philosophy.

8. Barnett Newman – Abstract Expressionism, distinct from gestural abstraction or action

painting.

9. Adolph Gottlieb – His painting expressed authentic feeling in the face of the trauma of World
War II. Most of his themes are evil, war, violence and ignorance.

10. Lee Krasner – Krasner’s painting of “Self Portrait” illustrates her early traditional training in
realism, her strong technical skill and her self-assuredness in the role of an artist.

11. Andy Warhol – His drawings were often comic, decorative and whimsical, and their tone is
entirely different from the cold and impersonal mood of his pop art.