Barbara Hess-Gabriel Boeken

Der Abstrakte Expressionismus betrachtet den ungegenständlichen Einsatz von Farbe als Mittel des persönlichen Ausdrucks. Die erste amerikanische Kunstbewegung, die einen weltweiten Einfluss ausübte, entstand in den 1940er-Jahren. Zu ihren Protagonisten gehörten Jackson Pollock , Philip Guston , Robert Motherwell , Mark Rothko und Willem de Kooning . Aus dem Abstrakten Expressionismus gingen viele verschiedene Stilrichtungen hervor, aber zwei machten besonders Furore: das von de Kooning und Pollock praktizierte Action Painting und die Farbfeldmalerei, die vor allem durch Rothko berühmt wurde. Alle Abstrakten Expressionisten wollten Emotionen und Ideen durch Markierungen , Formen, Texturen, Farbschattierungen und die Art des Pinselstrichs transportieren. Sie bevorzugten großformatige Leinwände und räumten dem Zufall in der Entstehung ihrer Kunst eine wichtige Rolle ein. Dieses Buch präsentiert Arbeiten der 20 wichtigsten Abstrakten Expressionisten und stellt die Bewegung vor, die das Zentrum der Kunstwelt von Paris nach New York verlagerte und für viele nach wie vor den Höhepunkt amerikanischer Kunst repräsentiert.

The leader of the abstract expressionists "If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody’s nose with it, this is rather ridiculous... It’s really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today." —Willem de Kooning Dutch-born American painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) was a leader of the abstract expressionist movement. Inspired by Arshile Gorky to abandon the realist style that had dominated his work in the 1930s, he began experimenting with abstraction in the 1940s and quickly gained critical success. His monumental Woman series of the 1950s—characterized by wild color and aggressive overtones— was received with both controversy and acclaim. He continued to paint until the late 1980s, leaving behind a vast and impressive body of work. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series

Common symbols reinterpreted Though his work is often categorized as Pop Art for its use of popular iconography and household objects, Jasper Johns can also be described as a Neo-Dadaist. Using wax-based paint, plaster relief, collage, and even commonplace objects such as brooms and rulers in his paintings, Johns achieves a sculptural texture in his work. He is arguably most known for his flag paintings of the 1950s (the Museum of Modern Art in New York recently paid over $20 million for White Flag ), though other themes, including targets, numbers, letters, and maps, are also famously recurrent. Johns is widely considered one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series

Concepts in Artworks as visual explanations of ideas Italian artist Lucio Fontana tore apart the modern art establishment—literally. Trained initially as a sculptor, Fontana (1899-1968) blurred the lines between painting and sculpture by creating works that combined both form and color in a spatial context, most famously exemplified by his slashed canvases of the 1950s and 60s. Fontana`s work was truly conceptual, in that the ideas he wanted to express were more important than the actual work itself; with titles like Concetto Spaziale (Spatial Concept) and Scultura Spaziale (Spatial Sculpture), his pieces served as visual explanations of his ideas. From his early work in collaborating with architects through his years in Buenos Aires (where, in the mid-1940s, he published the famous "White Manifesto" and "Technical Manifesto of Spatialism," among others), his experimental light installations of the early 1950s, and his later experiments with various media, this book covers the entire career of Italy`s pioneering abstract artist. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series

Aus den frühen documenta-Ausstellungen in ihrer Markt-Nähe, gingen der Kölner Kunstmarkt und danach weltweit moderne Kunstmärkte hervor