Nuris
Unit 2
Abstraction- Expressionism
Abstraction Vocabularies
Techniques of Abstraction
Displacement
- Displacement is taking a picture as inspiration, using its elements and creating new art in an empty space.
Fragmentation
- Fagmentation is taking a picture, cutting it into different pieces, re-arranging and applying onto a new surface
Transformation
- Changing a picture into something new
Distortion
- Out of proportion / Warping, Modifying, Disfiguring, Ruining.
Pure Abstraction
- Modify subject / inspired by music, place and time etc.
Close- up Manipulations
Modern Art History
- Expressionism occurred in the early 20th century. It was a way to express subjective emotion.It was mostly developed in Germany.
- Expressionism is a modernist movement.Modernist Movement is a movement in which artists started to paint in a more geometric style rather than drawing realistically.
Significance events
Germany was preparing for WW1There was angst in the airNew technologies and massive urbanization efforts altered the individual's worldviewArtists reflected on the psychological impact of these developments by moving away from a realistic representation of what they saw toward an emotional and psychological rendering of how the world affected them.
2. Post - Impressionism
- 20th century
- First originated in France.
Group of young painters wanted more independence of expressing their emotions and have deeper symbols with in the art.They used simplified colors and clear forms to characterize their art as renewed artistic senses. Moreover, the artist expressed their emotions, comprehension and perception of the world in their paintings using color and form.
Significance events -The British government began to organize schools in 1870.
- Susan B. Anthony and 50 other women were arrested for trying to vote in the presidential election. (1872)
- Alexander G. Bell invented a telephone. (1876)
- Abstract art began in the year of 1911 till now.
- abstraction is a type of art that either can be painting of sculpture where it does not resembles a person or a thing in the natural world. The artist exaggerated or extremely distorted the art work by using a stroke of a pen or any art used utensil during the process.
Significance events
In the 19 century, realistic type of art were popularIn the late 1830s, 1840s, the artists re-evaluate their art style and methodology.
- Invention of camera
- Developments of the photograph.
1. Impressionism
[mid] 19th century
-Began with Paris-based artists
-Independent exhibitions made them famous (1870s-1880s)
-Centered Paris, France
Impressionism was a first movement in painting that was abstract. Shortly before this movement, the camera was invented. Impressionist painting characteristics include yet visible brush strokes and emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities. Normallu, impressionists draw nature or daily of people. Many drawing looks relistic.
- Significance events
Industrial Revolution:Invention of Daguerreotype (1839): an invention that captured the view and transferred it on paper.
3. Expressionism
4. Abstraction
Abstraction - Expressionism Painting Process
Objective
Objective of this assignment is to choose one Abstraction technique ( Distortion, Displacement, Fragmentation, Transformation, Inspiration and Close- up manipulation.) to create an ABSTRACTION- EXPRESSIONISM PAINTING.
Brainstrom
Create something look different by abstraction techniques
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Instrument ( element of music)
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Animals
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Nature
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Human
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Furniture
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Use displacement abstraction technique
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Use many shapes
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Use lots of light color
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Mix and Match ( shapes)
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Unrealistic
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No rules
Research
Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were amongst the first abstract art. She belonged to a group called "The Five" and her paintings which resembled sometimes diagrams were a visual representation of complex philosophical ideas. I think her painting is really unique because many kind of lines and shapes looks different than real product. For example, I can see some flowers but they are not really look like a flower. Moreover, I like her colour choice because those colour are harmony.
Albert Gleizes
Paysage cubiste By Albert Gleizes (1914)
Albert Glezies was a French painter and theorist associated with the Cubist and abstract movements. He worked for several years in his father's fabric design studio, but began to paint on his own in an Impressionist style. He also helped to found a community of artist and writers based on the ideals of utopia socialism. Moreover, developed a more structural style and met artist Le Fauconnier and Metzinger, who were working on similar lines. He participated in the Cubist movement with Merzinger and painted Du cubism in 1912. He started to paint first abstract pitures in 1914 and most of his artwork retained some connections with figure or still life.This artwork is created in 1914 by Albert Gleizes. The title of this artwork is “Paysage cubiste”. This artwork made using oil on canvas. In addition, this artwork reminds me of a small village because I can see few houses and stairs. After observed this artwork I feel very relax because warm colors and cool colors harmony well and most of shapes are round. I wondered that why this artist drew circles with buildings because I don’t understand what
he is trying to show by these circles. Moreover, I’m not sure but I think he used fragmentation and displacement abstraction techniques in this artwork because this artwork looks like cut the small village drawing in small art pieces and paste together and all the pieces are not matching. Also he used rule of circle and triangle, warm colors and cool colors. I think the artist is trying to show darkness and brightness in our life.
I think this artwork is successful because this artwork organized well and has an exciting and great design. Moreover, it presents the visual appeal of the subject to me. I will use displacement abstraction technique in my artwork.
Concept
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Instruments (guitar, trumpets)
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Elements of Music
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Light colors (mostly pastel tone)
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Displacement (shapes with instruments)
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Mostly soft lines
Thumbnail Sketches and Practice
These are my sketches. For the first one is about bird. I displaced bird's body parts (hands, wings, head..) Also I used technique that I learned from Grade 10 art. I really like the idea to use technique on the wings but I did not like other part of colors so I tried to create more sketches.
Final Sketch
This is my final sketch. I used lots of colors in my artwork because I wanted to show music is infinite. Moreover, color is infinite because we can make so many colors that we can't count by mixing. Most of colors are like pastel tone and light.
Revise
To improve my sketch, I asked friends and Ms. Hwang to get advice. Ms. Hwang said make gradation because it was look so flat. Also Seyoung and Claire also said make shadow or use any technique, so I add gradation and my artwork become much better than before.
Final Product
Reflection
1. What is the title of your painting and why have you given this title?
The title of my artwork is "Infinite" because as you can see my artwork is about Music. Music is infinite and I wanted to show infinite more so I used lots of colors and shapes with elements of music. It can show colors are also infinite, it has no limits. (We can make any color we want by mixing. )
3. How is this an ABSTRACTION-EXPRESSIONIST painting?
This is an Abstraction- Expressionist painting because it is unrecognizable also I used one of the Abstraction technique "Displacement" in my artwork. I mixed instruments with many shapes and displaced anywhere. Also I made instruments just part of shapes. I tried to people to find instruments between many shapes.
4. What inspired you to create this? How has it inspired you? How much has it inspired you?
The things that are infinite has no limits. I thought about it and Music and color comes up because we can make any colors and Music has no limits anything we can sing or play.
5. What media did you use and what techniques did you adopt?
I used acrylic paint on canvas. I didn't use any techniques but I expressed shadows in every shapes because when I just paint it without shadows, It looked very flat. After expressed shadows, it looked much better, attractive and animated.
6. Is this painting successful in your opinion and why?
I believe that this artwork us successful without several things. I think two good things are I displace instruments well and expressed elements of music. However, I feel not really successful about I didn't use any techniques in my artwork. I really wanted to use many techniques in my artwork because it was very interesting and I've never used it before. I didn't really sure that what technique I need to use in my artwork because it was kind of improper to use techniques. If I do this abstraction lesson in the future, I want to use techniques to make my artwork attractive and cool.