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Abstract Expressionism
24 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Order number: 554
A personal account of the artists working in America during the 1940s and 1950s who are connected with so-called Abstract Expressionism. Expressionism itself is the deliberate desertion of naturalism in favor of a simplified style, involving exaggeration and distortion of line and color in order to produce a much greater emotional impact. Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter who went to America in 1940; much earlier, he had changed his realist landscapes for Cubist ones, and he now became extremely influential with his `plastic art,' which restricted forms to purely geometrical shapes colored only in the three primary colors and white, black or gray. His work is examined along with that of his fellow abstract artists De Kooning, Rothko, Still, Pollock and Newman.
For more information see section 14
Credits -
Director
Charles Cooper
Presenter/Writer
Donald Judd
Open University/BBC
