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• PICASSO
  by CateTownsend

  I’ve just returned from a weekend up in Brisbane. It wasn’t just any weekend it was a huge turning point for me. I went to the Picasso…

  I’ve just returned from a weekend up in Brisbane. It wasn’t just any weekend it was a huge turning point for me. I went to the Picasso exhibition. As I walked through the black curtain into the masters realm my pulse was racing. Standing in front of the first Picasso artwork I was so overcome with emotion tears were spilling down my cheeks. You might think that I’m exagerating, but to see the works of not only Picasso, but Braque, Ernst, Mattisse, Modigliani, Renoir, Rousseau (there were more) in the flesh was so absolutely a trip out of this world. In my early teen years I visited an exhibition of some of Picasso’s work at the Sydney Gallery and this made such an impression on me and has been a huge influence in my work. While studying design I was facinated by the artists from the turn of the century and I feel that Picasso was very instrumental in artists looking outside the square. I recommend this journey to Brisbane before the exhibition ends. Can you even try to imagine a trip into the beginnings of cubism, surrealism, fauvism, expressionism as an artist I don’t believe you can let this opportunity slip past you.

• The Expressionist Art Movement
  by Kirsty Semple

  This article can also be found on my blog click here Expr…

  This article can also be found on my blog click here Expressionism was an artistic style which grew like a rose out of the soil of the late 19th early 20th century society. Originating in Germany and Austria and following the anti-authority thinking of people such as Freud, Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky, the expressionist movement focused on the expression of inner experience and emotion. It was less concerned with the reality of what a subject looked like and expressed the artist’s emotional reaction to it. Expressionist paintings can often be characterised by distorted forms drawn in bold colours and two dimensions, without perspective. But always sought to depict intense emotion and was always strongly subjective. Often the images were full of angst such as Edvard Munch’s The Scream, or the latter paintings of Vincent and Gough such as The Starry Night. Around the time of World War II the expressionist art movement had migrated to the shores of America. Indeed, it was the artists of this time which established New York as a place of importance in the art world. It has been said that expressionism was a precursor to surrealism and influenced artists such as Dali. A huge part of the movement in America became abstract expressionism, characterized by dripping paint onto the canvas. One of the most famous of the abstract expressionist painters of this period was Jackson Pollock. Interestingly the artists pioneering this movement never described themselves as expressionists, it was a label given to them, and as an artistic style is still very much alive today within the work of many contemporary painters.

• Thanks for my first sale! & the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th..........
  by Andy Housham

  How good is this?! Amazing, in less than a day of joining up on this site, some kind person bought a canvas print of LONDON CALLING. ...

  How good is this?! Amazing, in less than a day of joining up on this site, some kind person bought a canvas print of LONDON CALLING. This is a first attempt at expressionism which was painting over a collage of CLASH clippings. I had a lot of fun creating the painting and I hope that the print gives the buyer lots of pleasure too.

• Abstract Expressionism. The Movement. Art Educaltion 101
  by Bread

  Abstract Expressionism the Movement. Art Education 101 -Abstract Expressionism emerged in post war 1940’s New Your -Coined the Gold…

  Abstract Expressionism the Movement. Art Education 101 -Abstract Expressionism emerged in post war 1940’s New Your -Coined the Golden Age Of American Art -Used to express common powerful emotions in simple aspects using chance and various textures. -Abstract Expressionism helped push the New York Art scene to wordd wide envy. -Expressionist sought to express subconcious through various Abstract Art Styles. -Individual Artist Collectively used rapid paint dripping, non geometric, large brush strokes. -Abstract Expressionist Movement heavely based on Freedom and expression. -Artist of the Abstract Expressionist Movement / Jackson Pollack / Hans Hoffman / Adolf Gottlieb / Mark Rothko / Kooning / Motherwell / Klien You can Check out my Ebay Store Urban Picasso Art and see how the Abstract Expressionist Movement has affected the Art World today http://stores.ebay.com/urban-picasso-art