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The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program The History of Abstraction: A Survey con’t Colour Field Painting continued Helen Frankenthaler Mountains and Sea, 1952 Oil stain on canvas One of the reasons for the success of the colour field movement was the technique of staining. In this method artists would dilute their paint in containers, making a fluid liquid and then pour it onto raw unprimed canvas. The paint could also be brushed on or rolled on or thrown on and would spread into the fabric of the canvas and artists would often draw shapes and areas as they stained. Many artists, such as Helen Frankenthaler, found that pouring and staining opened the door to innovations and revolutionary methods of drawing and expressing meaning in new ways. Colour field became a viable way of painting at exactly the time that acrylic paint, the new plastic paint, came into being. Oil paints, which have a medium quite different, are not water based and so leave a slick of oil around the edge of a colour whereas acrylic paints stop at their own edge. Acrylics were first made commercially in the 1950s with water soluble artist quality acrylic paints becoming commercially available in the early 1960s. These proved to be ideally suited for stain painting as water soluble acrylics made diluted colours sink and hold fast into raw canvas. AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479 youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program Pop Art: A Brief Analysis Pop Art refers to an art movement that began in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. From the very start its imagery was largely based on American mass media and the movement thus had a special appeal to American artists. The Pop Art Movement reached its fullest development in America in the 1960s. Pop Art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist’s use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art. Pop Art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture. As such, pop art employs aspects of mass culture such as advertising, comic books, and mundane cultural objects as art subjects such as hamburgers and ice-cream cones. Pop Art is also associated with the artists’ use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques such as the commercial advertising technique of silk-screening. Jasper Johns Flag, 1954-1955 Museum of Modern Art, New York Patrick Caulfield Still Life with Dagger, 1963 Tate Gallery, London U.K. In the United States Pop Art was initially regarded as a reaction to Abstract Expressionism because its exponents brought back figural, representational imagery and made use of hard-edged, quasiphotographic techniques. Early Pop artists, such as Jasper Johns, used the energetic brushstrokes and boldly abbreviated shapes of Action Painting, but Pop artists differed in that their paintings are about something beyond personal symbolism and ‘painterly looseness’. Pop artists were often labeled Neo-Dadaists because they used commonplace subjects such as comic strips (Roy Lichtenstein), soup tins (Andy Warhol) and highway signs which had affinities with Marcel Duchamp’s ‘ready-mades’ of the early 20th century. Artists associated with the Pop Art Movement are not unified in their artistic approaches but, AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479 youraga.ca
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