Post-War Abstractionism

What is existentialism

A philosophical idea where the individual is completely autonomous from value and worth, divine law and absolute value. Emphasis on freedom for all, against all systems

Art of the Post-War Era themes

Expression of anxieties, pain, uncertainty, and a renewed interest in spirituality

Art of the Era critiques

Anti civilization

Anti geometric forms

Anti rationality

Art Informel members mid 1900s

Wols

Fautrier

Art Informel concepts

Reaction to geometric abstraction in De Stijl, Cubism

Spontaneity, intuition, and unconsciousnesss in artistic creativity

Fautrier’s Head of a Hostage Series, WWII

Wols’ Painting WWII

Art Brut means…

Raw art

What is Anticultural Position

DeBuffet’s exhibition where his approach in subjects and materials was unorthodox

Art Brut concepts

Pro low art

Anti elaborate language

Revisited primitivism

Anti formalism

Dubuffet’s Grande Maitre of Outsider WWII

Francis Bacon’s Study after Velazquez’s Pope Innocent X mid 1900s

Francis Bacon’s Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef mid 1900s

US Abstract Expressionism Artists

de Kooning

Jackson Pollock

Mark Rothko

Barnett Newman

Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm mid 1900s

Jackson Pollock’s Number 1, 1950 Lavender Mist

Abstract Expressionism automatism theory

Jung, where Surrealism inspired by Freud

Rothko’s Lavender and Mulberry mid 1900s

Newman’s Man Heroic Sublime mid 1900s