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Expressionism and Abstract




Expressionism and Abstract


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Sonia Delaunay Electric Prisms 1913




Edvard Munch. The Sick Child

Expressionism
Abstract
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.

The later 19th and the 20th centuries, and its qualities of highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expression are typical of a wide range of modern artists and art movements.
the continuing interest in abstract art lies in its ability to inspire our curiosity about the reaches of our imagination and the potential for us to create something completely unique in the world.


“Abstract art has been with us in one form or another for almost a century now and has proved to be not only a long-standing crux of cultural debate but a self-renewing, vital tradition of creativity. We know that it works, even if we’re still not sure why that’s so, or exactly what to make of that fact.”

Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock, Kirk Varnedoe, 2006, Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 [p. 29]



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