Expressionism/Pop

Question 1

Expressionism

Answer 1

1. Emotional content of expressionism
2. Formal inventiveness of cubism
3. Spontenaity of surrealism

Question 2

Answer 2

Mark Rothko

No. 14

Wanted viewer to see art is free state

Question 3

Answer 3

Rothko Chapel

Not interested in color - expressing basic human emotion

Don’t need to rely on icons to communicate

Question 4

Answer 4

Jackson Polluck

Number 1 / Lavender Mist

Automotism

Inspired by Indian sand painters

Question 5

automatism

Answer 5

—In painting, the process of yielding oneself to instinctive motions of the hands after establishing a set of conditions (such as size of paper or medium) within which a work is to be created.

Question 6

Clement Greenberg

Answer 6

Critic who was in support of Pollock. Said that artists should be true to limitations of art and embrace it.

Question 7

Answer 7

Hitchcock
Strangers on a Train

Question 8

Answer 8

WILLEM DE KOONING

Woman I

Inspired by traditional modes of beauty and ads

Process was very important

He said women irritated him, observed that maybe he was painting the irritation within himself

Question 9

Answer 9

Andy Warhol self portrait

Commercial illustrator

Interested in how media manipulates and interprets personalities

15 minutes of fame

Question 10

Answer 10

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Diptych

Screen printed

Compared to byzantine gold idols