The Artchive needs EVERYONE to help! If you enjoy this site, please click here to find out how YOU can help to keep it online. See also: CD-ROM Reviews: Painters Painting Buy Abstract Expressionism posters online Click here! Milton Avery Willem De Kooning Helen Frankenthaler Philip Guston Franz Kline Joan Mitchell Jackson Pollock Mark Rothko Cy Twombly Abstract Expressionism "A term first used in connection with Kandinsky in 1919, but more commonly a ...

Abstraction was on its way since impressionism had challenged the function of art. Cubism was only one step towards this new goal. Geometric shapes gave a new vision of reality. The suggestive names of paintings from Turner to the futurists invited to overcome even this vision. In the 191... Vassily Kandinsky on one hand, and the rayonists on tne other, gave the next step, taking painting to the level of abstraction of music as they filled shapes and colors with rhytm, emotion and spiritualit ...

Glossary Term: Abstract In art, abstraction means that the artist changes the appearance so it no longer looks realistic. Artists use abstraction in many ways and for many different reasons. The artist may leave out details, shift the point of view, exagerate, simplify or otherwise distort the image. Modigliani changes the face to simple, exagerated shapes. Picasso’s abstract Cubist style shows more than one point of view. Abstract works of art that have no recognizable subject are cal ...