Abstract Expressionism

Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/08/2016
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Location
The Draft House Westbridge




Ben Basing

What does Abstract Expressionism express, and where does it abstract if from?

Abstract Expressionism is a modern art movement, epitomised by large American paintings with no discernible subject matter.  Epitomised by works like Jackson Pollock’s canvases covered with drips of paint, or Barnet Newman’s enormous pictures with just one vertical stripe.  As these were clearly not trying to depict a physical object were they trying to express something about the world, or the artists’ minds, or make some phenomenological comment about the spectator’s observation of the world?

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