Abstract Art Work Operates On The Transcendental
Abstract art work, despite its long history, no longer has the inscrutability it began with. When The New York School renounced representation in the late 1940s, all hell broke loose. Over time abstraction in art has been assimilated. It has lost its shock value though not its mystery.
Hans Hoffman, fresh from Europe, opened a school in New York to advance the ideas set forth by Picasso and Matisse. But he took it further; to complete abstraction. He believed, like many other artists, that with the invention of the camera, the exact replication of objects or locales was no longer relevant. He proffered the ideals of an inner reality, subjective and transcendental.
The new criteria centered on colors, shapes and calligraphic lines. What constituted the blank space, referred to as the ground in art school, was just as important as the forms. It was called the push/pull theory and it attracted many followers. A landscape no longer consisted of trees, water and sky. In time, the landscape ceased to exist at all. Hoffman and his approach had become famous and his students became the darlings of the art world.
From his school, a movement was born. Abstract Expressionism soon came to dominate the art world. America was no longer in the shadow of Europe when it came to the arts. It was now cutting-edge. This new art also went by the names non-figurative, nonobjective and non-representational art.
Today the names of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko are the giants under the banner of Abstract Expressionism. Taken for granted today, nonobjective art was a radical idea. While its practitioners became household names, they had a hard time making a living in the early days, often ridiculed in the media.
By the late 1950s, abstract art work was the fashion and other types were ridiculed in some circles. Artists who depicted outer reality soon were marginalized. By the mid to late-1950s, representational art was outdated. Total abstraction has no reference to anything recognizable. This theory dominated until the 1960s. Then Pop Art deviated with a differencing philosophy and it took precedence. Nevertheless, abstraction is alive and well today and not at all shocking.
Hans Hoffman, fresh from Europe, opened a school in New York to advance the ideas set forth by Picasso and Matisse. But he took it further; to complete abstraction. He believed, like many other artists, that with the invention of the camera, the exact replication of objects or locales was no longer relevant. He proffered the ideals of an inner reality, subjective and transcendental.
The new criteria centered on colors, shapes and calligraphic lines. What constituted the blank space, referred to as the ground in art school, was just as important as the forms. It was called the push/pull theory and it attracted many followers. A landscape no longer consisted of trees, water and sky. In time, the landscape ceased to exist at all. Hoffman and his approach had become famous and his students became the darlings of the art world.
From his school, a movement was born. Abstract Expressionism soon came to dominate the art world. America was no longer in the shadow of Europe when it came to the arts. It was now cutting-edge. This new art also went by the names non-figurative, nonobjective and non-representational art.
Today the names of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko are the giants under the banner of Abstract Expressionism. Taken for granted today, nonobjective art was a radical idea. While its practitioners became household names, they had a hard time making a living in the early days, often ridiculed in the media.
By the late 1950s, abstract art work was the fashion and other types were ridiculed in some circles. Artists who depicted outer reality soon were marginalized. By the mid to late-1950s, representational art was outdated. Total abstraction has no reference to anything recognizable. This theory dominated until the 1960s. Then Pop Art deviated with a differencing philosophy and it took precedence. Nevertheless, abstraction is alive and well today and not at all shocking.
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