FAH289H5 Lecture 2: FAH289-WEEK2
Document Summary
Abstract expressionism and art informel: laurent de brunhoff, illustration from babar and celeste; elephant pollock. Interest in unconscious mind and repository of imagery: dream imagery, myth, and primitivism, revolution of the mind, techniques of psychic automatism, point is to bypass reason, no preconception, ex. Jackson pollock: combines influences of cubism, the moon woman cuts the circe 1943, one of his works prior to drip-painting, themes in violence, psychoanalytical thought. Woman i 1950 and woman and bicycle 1952 look similar: aggressive, almost misogynist depiction of women, retreating from automatism to gain distinctively recognizable style (logo, personality); pressures of artistic market; impossible to experiment all the time (possible reasons) Lee krasner: married to pollock, put career on hold until he died, art scene was dominated by men, repurposes discarded pollocks, connects their practices, pursued collage; avant-garde art style. In 50s, modern people felt belittled by atomic bomb (sublime emotion: modern technological sublime.
