abstract expressionism
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Robert Motherwell and the New York School
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“The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else
can one do if one needs to express one’s feeling precisely?”
by Robert Motherwell
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Abstract Painting No. 5, 1962
Ad Reinhardt’s work became increasingly reductive and symmetrical in the
1950’s and from 1955 until his death he worked almost exclusively in
near-black. In fact the blue-black surface of ‘Abstract Painting
No. 5’ has an underlying grid of different coloured squares divided by a
green central horizontal band. Seen from top left, the squares are:
red, blue, red, red, blue, red. Each of these colours was mixed with
black oil paint to give a matt surface quality.
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“My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. It really is an object. Any painting is an object and anyone who gets involved enough in this finally has to face up to the objectness of whatever it is that he’s doing. He is making a thing.. ..all I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion.. .What you see is what you see.”
Art by Frank Stella
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“I am not an abstractionist.. .I am not interested in the relationships
of color or form or anything else.. .I’m interested only in expressing
basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact
that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures
show that I communicate those basic human emotions.. .The people
who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I
had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their
color relationships, then you miss the point!”— Mark Rothko
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“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.”
Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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“Every good painter paints what he is.”
Jackson Pollock documentary