(H/B) ABSTRACT ART

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Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of conventional representational imagery and characterized by allegories of emotion and sensation. This radical artistic adventure established new artistic means, as much as narratives.
Expression became characterized by shocking juxtapositions of color, light, and line. Artists abandoned the conventions of brush and easel and played with new materials and methods of artistic gesture: commercial paints and housepainter's brushes, working on unstretched and unprimed canvases, moving the canvas to the floor, and applying paint with hands. This essential introduction spans the international breadth, conceptual depth, and seismic impact of abstract art with a thorough survey not only of the big names such as Picasso, Klee, Kline, Rothko, and Pollock, but also lesser-known figures who made equally significant contributions, including Antoni Tapies, K. O. Goetz, Ad Reinhardt, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

1910s
PABLO PICASSO - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
WASSILY KANDINSKY - First Abstract Watercolour
ROBERT DELAUNAY - First Simultaneous Disk
FRANZ MARC - Small Composition III
KASIMIR MALEVICH - Black Square
KASIMIR MALEVICH - Suprematism
HANS ARP - Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
1920s
EL LISSITZKY - Proun R. V. N. 2
THEO VAN DOESBURG - Contra Composition V
KURT SCHWITTERS - Merz 1924, First Relief with Cross and Sphere
WASSILY KANDINSKY - In the Blue
SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP - Vertical-Horizontal Composition
PAUL KLEE - Highroads and Byroads, 1929/90
PIET MONDRIAN - Composition No. II. Composition with Blue and Red
1930s -1940s
WLADYSLAW STRZEMINSKI - Unistic Composition No. 8
PIET MONDRIAN - Broadway Boogie-Woogie
JACKSON POLLOCK - Cathedral
1950s
WOLS - The Blue Phantom
K. O. GOTZ - Painting of Feb. 8, 1953
ROBERT MOTHERWELL - Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 34
GEORGES MATHIEU - Capetians Everywhere
ERNST WILHELM NAY - Rhythms in Crimson and Grey II
ANTONI TAPIES - Large Grey Painting
HANS HARTUNG - T 1956-9
MARK ROTHKO - Red, White and Brown
PIERRE SOULAGES - Painting 7 July 1957-1958
AD REINHARDT - Abstract Painting
KAREL APPEL - Flying Heads
FRANK STELLA - Die Fahne hoch!
EMILIO VEDOVA - Situation Clash 59-6
1960s
FRANZ KLINE - Scranton
WILLEM DE KOONING - Door to the River
EMIL SCHUMACHER - Rofos
HELEN FRANKENTHALER - Noon
BARNETT NEWMAN - Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue I