By: Aileen Peer and Julia Beckett
 -Great Depression, WPA
 -World War II

 -Surrealism, Cubism,
  Expressionism
The Artist with His Mother,
Arshile Gorky (1926-1936)     The Liver is the Cock’s Comb, Arshile
                              Gorky (1944)
   -Large scale of canvas
   -Spontaneous yet controlled
    (planned) movements
   -Bold brushstrokes
   -Gesture/action painting technique
   -Reworked surfaces
   -Captures emotion
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Pencil drawing of Elaine de Kooning,
                1940

                                       Seated Woman, Willem de Kooning (1940)
Pink Angels, Willem de Kooning - 1945
Excavation, Willem de Kooning-1950 Oil on canvas
Woman I, Willem de Kooning-1950-52
Composition, Willem de Kooning-1955. Oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas
Gotham News, Willem de Kooning-1955
Villa Borghese, Willem de Kooning (1960). Oil on canvas
Women, Sag Harbor, Willem de Kooning-1964
Whose Name Was Writ in Water, Willem de Kooning-1975. Oil on canvas
Rider (Untitled VII), Willem de Kooning -1985
http://www.themathhattan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/jackson-
pollock.jpg
http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/lm1024.jpg
http://www.chicagomag.com/images/2009/June%202009/C0609_QueenArt
s_10.jpg
http://0.tqn.com/d/gonyc/1/0/h/F/moma-28.JPG
http://uploads0.wikipaintings.org/images/jackson-pollock/number-
32-1950.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-
IaaHtnOM9MI/TZoyGN4xwJI/AAAAAAAAAIM/aNMJt9YqvKo/s
1600/autumn-rhythm-number-30-pollock-1950.jpg
http://nga.gov.au/international/catalogue/Images/LRG/36334.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bICqvmKL
   5s
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
Carnival of Harlequin, Joan
                                     Miro (1924-1925)




Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea,
Mark Rothko (1944)
Sacrifice, Mark Rothko (April 1946)
Untitled, Mark Rothko (1947). Oil on canvas
Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red), Mark Rothko (1949)
Untitled (Titulurik gabea), Mark Rothko (1952–53)
Four Darks in Red, Mark Rothko (1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=vSiu8qzHV6c




                         Start at 1:49
The Rothko Chapel, Mark Rothko (1965)
Untitled, Black on Gray, Mark Rothko (1969)
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m24q89acZx1r1bfd7o1_1280.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-
Fl8jz3_9bWc/Tw5PI39oQQI/AAAAAAAAAos/22zgb7TBat0/s1600/franz-
kline-hazelton.jpg
http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ma/web-large/SF59.165.jpg
http://www.friendsofart.net/static/images/art3/franz-kline-black-
reflections.jpg
How Abstract Expressionism Influenced
          Other Art Movements
               Neo-Expressionism




Pop Art                                     Cecily Brown- Abstract
                                            Expressionist today


                           Post-Painterly Abstraction

                            (Ellsworth Kelly, The
                            Meschers, 1951)

Abstract Expressionism