Abstract Expressionism in 8 Minutes: From 'Jack The Dripper' to Color Fields 🔵🟡

What is Abstract Expressionism? How did it skyrocket in popularity across the globe, and why does it hold a dominant position in the history of modern art to this day? Who started it? Who celebrated it? And what was so radical about Jackson Polloсk's art that earned him a nickname "Jack the Dripper"? Let's find out in this episode from Curious Muse!

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[jcabram]

Abstract art is lazy and talentless art. It's a way for people with no artist ability, or people too lazy to learn, to be able to call themselves artist. I'm sorry if that hurts your feels, and I'm sorry if you poured your heart and soul into throwing paint at a canvas without a speck of ability or technique. But it's the truth.

[kozavr]

You don't explain what is Abstract Expressionism you just tell the history of it. Those are not the same things :)))

[tmamone]

People say, "Oh, my kid could do that!" However, as an abstract expressionist painter, I can tell you that you really need to have an eye for color, space, and brush strokes. Everything has to be balanced, although I can't tell you what that balance is. You just know.

[calvingrondahl]

Abstract expressionism is my favorite style of art. Number 32 by Jackson Pollock I like the best. He painted it in 1950 the year I was born.

[ROMANTIKILLER]

Personally, I don't get this style. Especially when it comes to Color Field paintings, while I hear they were meant to evoke strong emotional response from the observers, I have always found intellectually pretentious and they were never able to connect with me at any level.
To each its own, I suppose.

[perrywidhalm]

I wonder if Jackson Pollock had a laugh at the art world by creating nonsensical "art" by dripping paints on a canvass and watching to see what are "experts" made out of it? I wonder

[steffthesensitive]

I don’t get what people don’t get. If you don’t like it that’s okay. But it’s still art. It can be arresting, beautiful, action oriented, moody, all sorts of things you can get lost in.

What’s wrong with liking art because you like how it looks?! It’s a visual medium! If people hate the lack of order and representation then there’s so much art out there for them.

I like abstract expressionism because it allows me the viewer to project onto it. It feels like a pure relationship that involves my own memories and preferences for color.

So what if there is no narrative to broader message. Art can be beautiful and be decorative and still have meaning. I don’t know why people think only renaissance painters are artists.

Sure the art takes different skills and evokes different things but both are valid forms of artistic expression. I love it and I don’t think it has to be endlessly conceptual.

Do I like how this looks? Do I want to keep looking? That’s what matters.

[austinfreyrikrw]

Did someone mention abstract expressionism as being the ENFP of the art world? I'd say rather, action paintings are ENFP (extroversion and perceptive - expressive, explosive, free forms, spontaneous), whereas color field paintings are more INFJ (introversion and judging - meditative, controlled and deliberate).

[tweekArts]

This is one of my favorite styles of art. 8
min well spent! Thanks!

[lisefpt]

This is very influential, informative, insightful, and inspirational! Great video! 😊👍

[gul-e-zahrahaider]

Love Rothko's approach, want to see them in real and experience an experience.

[charpnatl]

Fantastic Video! I enjoy both action painting and color field paintings. I was drawn to them before I even know what they were or who did them.

[luttle_lu]

I've heard, that Lee Krasner, a wife of Pollock, was also a remarkable artist, but devoted all of her pasion and strength to her husbend, so that we hear about her much less, than it should be.

[jchow]

Sone people back om the day - some people thought this was stupid.

[normapadro]

Hello. I like my art work. I don't compare it to anyone. I like your video. I enjoyed every art work showcased here. I like everyone of them. Thank you for sharing all their styles.

[saran]

I just had to do a presentation today about minimalism and talked all about the connections between it and abstract expressionism. I’d love to see you guys cover minimalism next!

[lukegehring]

For 16 years I gave tours in a major art museum. I frequently was assigned tours highlighting the names in this documentary. Mine were considered among the best, owing to the fact that I was aided by an art professor who knew them personally. This was critical because otherwise I found, and still do, though I could never state on a tour, their work to be pretentious, empty and a dead end, which monopolized the art world for far too long.

[mjtino]

Ab EX was the movement that resonated with me instantly. I could easily relate on a subconscious and intuitive level. Action and color field painting enabled me to break free from the corporate design work I was involved with— my professional career as an Art Director and graphic designer was limited as to what I wanted to accomplish aesthetically and emotionally. When I discovered Ab-Ex, it freed me and I began experimenting with painting and drawing. It didn't take long to realize that accomplishing this style of creating was an intuitive and natural endeavor. Thank you AB-EXers of the past, present and future!

[loaded]

2.99£ is art, instead of 3, 2.99 is more art . :) Abstract don't have to have meaning, randomness, spontaneous decisions were and always will be norms. It's abstract that is why it's abstract. No need to prove anything to anyone same goes for everyone hashtag random

[daaimdaanish]

Like! No... I LOVE Abstract Expressionism... Color Field on mine! Rothko is my dude!