FAH246H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ad Reinhardt, Peripheral Vision, Seagram Building
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The gesture in the 1950"s from autographic expression to the evacuation of the personal. The eye can never rest, there is no subject, everything is moving, can imagine stopping and trying to think what he was doing. Pollack: quality of working all over the surface and not singling one area out as being less/more important. Always painting figurism/ lingering interest in the figure. Returns to the standard of western art, as the female nude. Sense of abstraction, colourful and full of gesture, He had many continuing themes cigar, pointing, fear, sole of shoes. No more gesture or emotion like abstract expressionism. Many people drop out his work of the abstract expressionism genre. Rothko, number 3-13 (magenta, black, green on orange (1949) Working more in the abstract expressionist way. Tried to express what he deemed basic human emotions tragedy, ecstasy, doom, the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience i had when i painted them.
