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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 8 page paper compares two great artists of
the same time period, who used different media.
"Pollock," said painter Willem de Kooning, "busted
our idea of a picture all to hell." Callahan
concentrated on street scenes, landscapes, nature,
and most particularly, his wife and his daughter.
His primary objective was to be "different."
Bibliography uses 6 sources.
Page Count:
8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBcalPol.doc.
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of photographic greats that includes Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Edward Steichen (Van Siclen 13). Jackson Pollock has been labeled as a central hinge between the centurys two artistic
halves, a key to how we got from one to the other in modern art(Vardow 2). What this paper will attempt to examine are the similarities - what might tie
them together--and differences between the artists. We will look at the art movements that were happening during their careers; influences of other artists, how their different art forms -photography
and painting may have influenced them, and how their unique personalities appear are reflected in their art. Historic Art Periods: Abstract Art: The precursors of this movement
were Cezanne, Seurat and Gauguin who believed that the formal elements of painting - color, line, and composition could be used expressively - these works had no representational function. This
is what led into the art works we are comparing. Abstract Expressionism: The fall of Paris to the Nazi army in June 1940 marked the end of an era in
European modernism. If the modernist movement in art was to have any immediate future, it would be left to artists in the United States --both native modernists and those
who had fled Europe--to create that future. Almost overnight, then, New York became the sole remaining outpost of the modernist movement, and the unofficial capital of the international avant-garde. This
was as much of a shock to American artists as it was to the Europeans, for modernist art was essentially considered a European creation and American artists were
used to regarding themselves as the underdogs of the movement (Kramer 17). Surrealism: real appearing objects in an unreal setting. The doctrine of automatism: was defined
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