Art 233 Test 2

monumental scale of mexican muralists (orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros) and Picasso's Guernica

a powerful wedding of social issues with avant-garde painting

last major modern art movement

abstract expressionism

Harold Rosenberg

coined the term action painting

CoBrA

copenhaggin brussels amsterdam, Holland

existential theoretical base

derived from the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre

pessimism of that time period

inherent in the economic struggles of the Great Depression and the bloodbath of WWII, culminating in the advent of nuclear weapons, with the bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagaskai in August 1945

spiritualized non-objectivity of Kandinsky's paintings

kandinsky's concerning the spiritual in art (1912

Clement Greenberg

referred to Pollock's work as "all over painting" in 1948

tachism

splatter or a blotch painting with splatters or blotches

abstract expressionism emerged where

the New York school

psychic automatism

the spontaneity and improvisational approaches of the Surrealists

Jungian desire

to understand the inner man through self-exploration, self-analysis

L'art informel

unformed art