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STYLES OF PAINTINGS
Jackson Pollack developed Action Painting going from Abstract Expressionism
to the automatic transfer of the Unconscious on canvas, which ensued
out of
Surrealism. Action Painting was then taken up by others as well. The
painting process became the most important part, it became a ritual.
Dripping ("to drip or trickle," a technique, with which Max Ernst
experimented with already in the 20s and 40s), and "dripping" was the
technique of often taking an unprepared and mostly large canvas which
was
carried out by dripping paint out of perforated cans in an impulsive
manner,
or the canvas was simply splashed with paint. Under the omission
of
rational control rhythmic patterns and lines were created, which were
supposed to express energies of the internal being.
International art movement, named after the French word "Dada" for
"hobbyhorse." It was obligatory for all artists NOT to settle on a
particular style: "Dada had the programme, not to have one. . .' (H.
Richter), but a political anti-bourgeoisie attitude and the liberation
of
hidden creative forces which were blocked by norms of culture. The
movement
originated in 1916 with the "Cabaret Voltaire" in Zurich. The Dadaists
strive for overthrowing of cubism and futurism with the help of an
ironic
synthesis of the primitive-banal movement and most advanced techniques.
Noise-music, simultaneous poems, provocative collages and assemblage
made
out of the most banal industry objects belonged to their means of
expression.
Foundation members of the movement, who swiftly founded branches in
Paris,
New York, Cologne, Hanover and Berlin and elsewhere, were Hans Arp,
Tristan
Tzara, Hugo Ball and Richard Huelsenbeck;
supporters or at times representatives were, for example, Marcel Duchamp,
Man Ray, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia and George Grosz.
The
nihilistic tendencies of Dadaism however, soon to progress into the
"Constructive", amongst other things into surrealism and recently into
Pop-art.
European art form from approximately 1905-25, in which Germany had been
decisively involved. Forerunner were painters like Vincent van Gogh,
Paul
Gauguin and Edvard Munch. In 1911 the concept of "Expressionism" appears
and
was soon applied by the representatives of fauvism, "The Blue Rider"
(Der
Blaue Reiter), "The Bridge" and "The Storm".
All these directions of style had mutual features: the personal values
of
feeling dominate the stark colours, expressiveness of the lines and
powerful
contours as well as an abstract simplification of the objective to
the
striking pictures and of large size and a tendency to the deformed
and
contorted perspectives.
The beginnings of Expressionism in Germany are initiated with the foundation
of "The Bridge" (Die Brücke) in 1905 and "The Blue Rider" (Der
Blaue Reiter)
in 1911. Loners like Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Nolde, Paula Modersohn-Becker,
Christian Rohlfs, Ludwig Meidner and others joined. In France George
Rouault
with his religiously oriented pictures represented an artistically
exceptional position. The so-called "Rhineland Expressionists" took
in a
middle position between fauvism and the "Blue Rider", e.g. Jan
Thorn-Prikker, Heinrich Nauen, Heinrich Campendonk. Charles Hofer,
Max
Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz and Oskar Kokoschka can be categorised
as
"The Storm" since around 1912.
After the First World War the Jewish artists of the Ecole de Paris
formed
their own version of Expressionism; to the "Flemish Expressionism"
belong
amongst others Constant Permeke, Gustave de Smet and Albert Servaes.
Expressionistic tendencies went into the "Muralismo", Abstract
Expressionism, into the "Informel", in "Art Brut" and the "Group Cobra".
is a category into the painting, the historical events, but also fabulous and poetic topics to the picture-object have. HISTORICAL-PAINTINGS into the widest senses has given to each time it. Into the difference to the actual picture of the story it arrives not always on historic fidelity, but it became the illustrations and interpretations through the respective artists or also the sponsors. Interesting at this establishment is, that itself at this principle until today through all art-epoch’s and directions nothing has changed. Up to the eighteens Century calculated also one the religious and mythological depictions to the HISTORICAL-PAINTINGS and for Leon Battista Alberti, Italian humanist, artists and scholars (Genua of 14.2.1403 until Rome of 25.4.1472) were valid for example painters of countryside-pictures as a type minder category. For the French academy was > le génie d'historiere< the identification of the artists as such. Hans Terwege
In 1950 Michel Tapies labelled "Informel" as a form of non-geometrical,
abstract painting which articulates itself in the spontaneous act of
painting without norms of composition. The art form of "Informel"
(in
existence since approximately 1945/ 46) coincides in time and formally
with
"Abstract Expressionism" and "Action Painting" as well as with "Lyrical
Abstraction" and "Tachism". Prominent representatives of this art form
were
Wols, Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages and Sam Francis.
Cubism emerged as an artistic trend at about 1907 in Paris which
was based
on the principles of form by Cézannes. The founders were Picasso,
Gris,
Braque, Leger and Derain. In the first phase, in the so-called "Analytic
Cubism", the object was by means of reduction of the colour shades
decreased
to its stereo-metric basic forms. The splitting into angular facets
served
the simultaneous depiction of different views of the object as well
as
(among other things) through elimination of the central perspective
its
constructive connection into the disposition of space. This principle
could
serve as a model for the cubist simplified Negro figure, as for example
in
the work of early Cubism, Picasso's work "LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON",
1907
(New York, Museum of Modern Art).
The most important medium of Cubism was the collage, which swiftly
turned
into one of the most influential trends of the modern art. Synthetic
Cubism
developed, mainly inspired through Juan Gris, approximately from
1915
onwards. He attempted to unite different materials and levels in a
"synthetic" manner to a new picture where a decorative arabesque served
as
the connection.
A trend which developed in the 50s of the 20th Century in England and
the
USA, then also on the continent, and which wanted to obliterate the
border-line between art and everyday reality. The banal environment
of the
modern consumption orientated society, its subculture and mass media
were
explained to be worthy of depicting, but at the same time scrutinised
in a
critical and ironic manner. One of the first of the major works of
Pop Art
is Richard Hamilton's collage "Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes
So
Different, So Appealing?", 1956 (Thousand Oaks, California, Collection
E.
Janss). It already includes almost all the elements of the Pop
iconography:
the muscle man, the Pin-Up-Girl, electric appliances, a tin can as
well as
references to the mass media. Sex and advertisements and their combination
to the 'turning a human being into an object' up unto his degradation
to the
object of desire and to commodities dominate the theme of many artists,
a
typical example is Tom Wesselmanns' work. Andy Warhol turns his attention
to
the bold and striking aspect and the reproduction of modern everyday
life;
Roy Lichtenstein updates this with monumental enlargements of cartoons
the
formation of "more modern" views.