JAV120H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Historical context (1. economy 2. social 3. political) Abstract expressionism (1943 - late 1965, developed in america) Historical context: 1. the second world war (1939-1945) 2. affected by the great depression (1929 - late 1930s)_ Social condition: 1. moral crisis in a world demonstrated by the great depression. 3. america suffered economically and felt culturally isolated and provincial. Social change: 1. economic decline; personal income, tax revenue and prices drapped; unemployment rose. 2. middle class americans moved to the suburbs after the war. Abstract expressionists were profoundly influenced by the style and by its focus on the unconscious. It encouraged their interest in myth and archetypal symbols and it shaped their understanding of painting itself as a struggle between self-expression and the chaos of the unconscious. Broadway boogie woogie (1942-43) (instead of usual solid lines, Mondrian uses lines made from small adjoining rectangles of colour) Geometric shape, ignoring the nature form and color.
