Painting #141 - Abstract Expressionism in USA

Abstract expressionism 

Number 1 (Lavender Mist) 
- Jackson Pollock (1912–1956, American)
- oil on canvas (221 x 300 cm) 1950
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Convergence
- Jackson Pollock
- oil on canvas (237 × 390 cm) 1952
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo) 

Cool white
- Lee Krasner (1908–1984, American)
- oil on canvas (182.5 x 290 cm) 1959
- National Gallery of Australia (Canberra) 

The Liver is the Cock's Comb
- Arshile Gorky (1904–1948, Armenian-American)
- oil on canvas (186 x 249 cm) 1944
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo) 

Woman and Bicycle
- Willem de Kooning (1904-1997, Dutch American)
- oil, enamel & charcoal on linen (194 x 125 cm) 1952-53
- Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC) 

Door to the River
- Willem de Kooning (1904-1997, Dutch American)
- oil on linen (204 x 178 cm) 1960
- Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC) 

Untitled (Black on Grey)

- Mark Rothko (1903–1970, Latvian American) 

- acrylic on canvas (203 × 176 cm) 1970

- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NYC)

1953
- Clyfford Still (1904–1980, American)
- oil paint on canvas (236 x 174 cm) 1953
- Tate Modern (London, not on display) 

Yellow Painting
- Barnett Newman (1905-1970, American)
- oil on canvas (171 x 133 cm) 1949
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

The Ballantine
- Franz Kline (1910-1962, American)
- oil on canvas (183 × 183 cm) 1958-60
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LA) 

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 70
- Robert Motherwell (1915–1991, American)
- oil on canvas (175 x 290 cm) 1961
- Dedalus Foundation (NYC) 

Painter's Table
- Philip Guston (1913-1980, Canadian American)
- oil on canvas (196 x 229 cm) 1973
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Wales
- Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011, American)
- acrylic on canvas (287 x 114 cm) 1966
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Alpha-Pi
- Morris Louis (1912-1962, American)
- magna on canvas (260 x 450 cm) 1960
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC) 

Ocean Park No. 64
- Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993, American)
- oil on canvas (256 × 207 cm) 1973
- Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh) 

Minimalism / Minimal art

Abstract Painting No.5
- Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967, American)
- oil on canvas (153 × 153 cm) 1966
- Anderson Collection (Stanford U) 

UNTITLED #3
- Agnes Martin (1912–2004, Canadian American)
- acrylic & graphite on canvas (183 x 183 cm) 1974
- Des Moines Art Center (Iowa) 

 

blank music, too

Six Mile Bottom
- Frank Stella (1936- , American)
- alkyd paint on canvas (300 × 182 cm) 1960
- Tate Modern (London) not on display 

Capernaum Gate
- Dorothea Rockburne (1932- , Canadian)
- oil paint on linen (234 x 215 x 10 cm) 1984
- Parrish Art Museum (New York) 

Source: Wikipedia

Painting #140 - Abstractionism

Abstract art

Suprematism in Russia:

Suprematist Composition
- Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935, Russian)
- oil on canvas (89 × 71 cm) 1916
- (private collection) 

De Stijl

Gray Tree 
- Piet Mondrian (1872–1944, Dutch)
- oil on canvas (79 × 108 cm) 1911
- Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (The Hague) 

Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red
- Piet Mondrian
- oil on canvas (72.5 × 69 cm) 1937–42
- Tate Gallery (London) 

Metaphysical art

Boy on the Rocks
- Henri Rousseau (1844–1910, French)
- oil on linen (55 × 46 cm) 1895-97
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

The Uncertainty of the Poet
- Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978, Italian)
- oil paint on canvas (106 x 94 cm) 1913
- Tate Modern (London) 

Napoleon in the Wilderness
- Max Ernst (1891–1976, German Am/Fr)
- oil on canvas (46 x 38 cm) 1941
- Museum of Modern Art (NYC) 

Woman & Bird in the Moonlight
- Joan Miró (1893-1983, Spanish surrealist)
- oil paint on canvas ( 81 x 66 cm) 1949
- Tate (Liverpool) 

Golconda / 天降
- René Magritte (1898–1967, Belgian surrealist)
- oil on canvas (81 × 100 cm) 1953
- The Menil Collection (Houston) 

The Persistence of Memory
- Salvador Dalí (1904–1989, Spanish Catalan surrealist)
- oil on canvas (24 × 33 cm) 1931
- Museum of Modern Art (NYC) 

Court les rues
- Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985, French) 1962
- Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee) 

An example of a non-painterly Dubuffet painting

Jean Genet
- Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966, Swiss)
- oil on canvas (65 x 54 cm) 1955
- Tate (London) 

American Paintings before WWII

Reflecting an uneasy atmosphere during the Great Depression (1929-39)

Nighthawks
- Edward Hopper (1882–1967, American)
- oil paint on canvas (84 × 152 cm) 1942
- Art Institute of Chicago 

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No.IV
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986, American)
- oil on canvas (102 x 76 cm) 1930
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Source: Wikipedia

Painting #139 - Cubism ..... Surrealism

Cubism, Futurism, Bauhaus, Surrealism

Cubism

The Young Ladies of Avignon 
- Pablo Picasso (1881–1973, Spanish in France)
- oil on canvas (244 × 234 cm) 1907 
- Museum of Modern Art (NYC) 

Still Life: Le Jour
- Georges Braque (1882–1963, French)
- oil on canvas (115 x 147 cm) 1929
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Fantomas
- Juan Gris (1887–1927, Spanish in France)
- oil on canvas (60 x 73 cm) 1915
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Futurism

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasised speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. It glorified modernity and aimed to liberate Italy from the weight of its past.

The Street Enters The House
- Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916, Italian)
- oil on canvas (100 × 100 cm) 1912
- Sprengel Museum (Hanover) 

The work centres on a woman on a balcony in front of a busy street, with the sounds of the activity below portrayed as a riot of shapes and colours.

Two Women Holding Flowers
- Fernand Léger (1881-1955, French)
- oil paint on canvas (97 x 130 cm) 1954
- Tate Britain (London) 

Hommage to Blériot
- Robert Delaunay (1885–1941, French)
- oil on canvas (47 x 47 cm) 1914
- Musée de Grenoble (Grenoble) 

The Blue Rider - towards abstractism 

 Deer in the Forest II
- Franz Marc (1880–1916, German)
- oil on canvas (110 x 101 cm) 1914
- Staatliche Kunsthalle (Karlsruhe, Germany) 

Woman in Green Jacket
- August Macke (1887–1914, German)
- color on canvas (44 × 43 cm) 1913
- Museum Ludwig (Cologne) 

Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)
- Kandinsky Kandinsky (1866–1944, Russian)
- oil on canvas (141 x 120 cm) 1913
- - National Gallery of Art (Washingon) 

Accent in Pink
- Wassily Kandinsky
- oil on canvas (101 x 81 cm) 1926
- Musée national d'art moderne (Paris) 

Bauhaus

Bauhaus (German: "building house"), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.

Paul Klee (1879–1940, Swiss German)

Movements: Expressionism, Bauhaus, Surrealism

The Goldfish
- Paul Klee
- oil and watercolors on paper (50 x 69 cm) 1925
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, (Hamburg) 

Diana in the Autumn Wind
- Paul Klee
- (63 x 48 cm) 1921
- a book 

Death and Fire
- Paul Klee
- oil on distemper on jute (46 × 44 cm) 1940
- Zentrum Paul Klee (Bern) 

Source: Wikipedia

Painting #138 - Expressionism

Expressionism

Degenerate art

“..... (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling", un-German, Jewish, or Communist in nature.

“Those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions that included being dismissed from teaching positions, being forbidden to exhibit or to sell their art, and in some cases being forbidden to produce art.

“Degenerate Art also was the title of an exhibition, held by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of 650 modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art. Designed to inflame public opinion against modernism, the exhibition subsequently traveled to several other cities in Germany and Austria.”

Die Brücke / The Bridge 

In 1905, Kirchner, along with Bleyl and two other architecture students, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel, founded the artists group Die Brücke ("The Bridge"). From then on, he committed himself to art. The group aimed to eschew the prevalent traditional academic style and find a new mode of artistic expression, which would form a bridge (hence the name) between the past and the present.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938, German) 

Berlin Street Scene
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- oil on canvas (121 x 95 cm) 1913
- Neue Galerie (NYC) 

Street, Berlin
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- oil on canvas (121 x 91 cm) 1913
- Museum of Modern Art (NYC) 

Street, Berlin (1913), one of a series on this theme, depicting prostitutes

Twilight
-  Emil Nolde (1867–1956, German-Danish)
- oil on canvas (74 x 101 cm) 1916
- Kunstmuseum (Basel) 

The Night
- Max Beckmann (1884–1950, German)
- oil on canvas (133 x 154 cm) 1818-19
- Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf) 

Beckman had been a medic in the Great War (i.e. WWI)

Death and the Maiden
- Egon Schiele (1890-1918, Austrian)
- oil (150 x 180 cm) 1915
- Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere (Vienna)

Death and the Maiden is a concept ultimately derived from the Medieval "Dance of Death": no matter one's status in life, the Dance of Death unites all.

The Bride of the Wind 
- Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980, Austrian) 
- oil on canvas (181 × 220 cm) 1913-14
- Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland) 

... a self-portrait expressing his unrequited love for Alma Mahler, widow of composer Gustav Mahler. Kokosvhka was but one of her lovers.

Immigrants to France

Landscape at Céret
- Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943, Russian in Paris)
- oil paint on canvas (56 x 84 cm) c.1920-21
- Tate Britain (London) 

The Green Violinist
- Marc Chagall (1887-1985, Belarusian in France)
- oil on canvas (198 x 109 cm) 1923-24
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NYC) 

This work is often considered to be the inspiration for the 1964 musical 《Fiddler on the Roof》.

Madam Pompadour
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920, Italian in France)
 - oil on canvas (61 x 50 cm) 1915
- The Art Institute of Chicago 

The artist was nicknamed the king in his life circle. Thus he nicknamed his lover, a journalist from Britain, Madam Pompadour.

Source: Wikipedia