AHIS BC 3626y Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Abstract Expressionism, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin
25 Aug 2016
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February 4th, 2016
Abstract Expressionism
Surrealism
Max Ernst, Rendezvous of Friends, 1925
• Collection of people who aren’t necessarily
surrealist, including Dostoevsky
• Ernst in his many paintings depict how it’s a
game, but also how it’s a cult
• Ernst was fully aware of the legacy of
primitivism (late 19th century art form)
• However, while continuity with previous art
and culture such a cubism is established in
surrealism, there are clear distinctions
• Ernst’s Dada Gaugin, 1921 was a criticism of
Gaugin’s primitivism and the exploitation of
the concept of the other
Biomorphism:
• A strategy of placing painting in between
representation and abstraction
• Miro’s The Harlequin’s Carnival demonstrates
the new admiration for biomorphic forms.
• Allows for the idealization of the most basic
forms of life.
• In its attempt to make the unconscious accessible, they focus on the scientific.
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