Abstract Expressionism




Clyfford Still, 1948, 1948. (Fountain, 2017)

Abstract Expressionism is meant to encompass not only the work of painters who filled their canvases with fields of color and abstract forms, but also those who attacked their canvases with a vigorous gestural expressionism (Foundation, 2017). In Still's artwork, 1948, a large work that recalls natural shapes and phenomena reminiscent of cave stalagmites, caverns, and other mysterious elements that lie just beneath the surface of our everyday conscious recognition (Foundation, 2017). 


David Smith, Cubi XII, 1963. (Foundation, 2017).

David Smith is one of the series of sculptures in stainless steel that epitomize his mature career as an artist. It is an abstract composition of geometric figures - squares and rectangles, in a vertical arrangement and intended to stand out of doors like a sentinel or a totem (Foundation, 2017). This artwork is a clear example on an Abstract Expressionist work of art. 

Sources counsulted


Foundation, T. A. S., 2017. Abstract Expressionism. [Online]
Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-abstract-expressionism.htm
[Accessed 06 September]

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