Abstractionism _ 3rd hour

2. “Art that makes no direct, immediately
discernible reference to recognizable
objects”
 Subjects are exactly what you see:
color, line, shape.
 Movement began around 1911 with
artist Wassily Kandinsky. This movement
was mostly concentrated in Europe.

3. “For me, the province of
art and the province of
nature thus became
more and more widely
separated, until I was
able to experience both
as completely
independent realms.”

4.  1866: Born in Moscow to a highly educated family.
 1896: Moved to Munich, Germany and studied art. (Art School of
Anton Azbe and The Academy of Fine Arts.)
 1909: Moved towards abstraction.
 1911: Founded “Der Blaue Reiter” group
 1912: Concerning the Spiritual in Art was published(foundation of
abstractionism)
 1920: Founded Moscow institute of Artistic Culture.
 1923: Taught at Bauhaus
 1933: Moved to Paris
 1944: Died

5. Influences on
Kandinsky
Influences caused by
Kandinsky
Paul Cézanne
Claude Monet
William Baziotes
Arshile Gorky
Hans Hartung
Hans Hofmann
Post-Impressionism
Fauvism
Cubism
Expressionism
Action Painting
Color Field Painting
Surrealism
Developments in science, philosophy,
and political and social changes were
also influences on Kandinsky’s work.

7. (1910)

10. "Feeling is the
determining factor ...
and thus art arrives at
non-objective
representation through
Suprematism."

11.  1878: Born in Ukraine to a middle class family.
 1895: Studied at the Kiev School of Art
 1904: Studied at the Stroganov School of Art
 1907: Shift to more Avant-Garde art
 1915: Found the Suprematism movement
 1915: Beginning of Black Series, White on White followed
 1918: Worked for Government Fine Arts Dept. Taught Abstractionism.
 1919: Completed manuscript of his book On New Systems in Art
 1935: Death

12. Influences on Malevich Influences caused by Malevich
Paul Cézanne
Pablo Picasso
Henri Matisse
El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky
Wassily Kandinsky
Marcel Duchamp
Paul Klee
Ad Reinhardt
Fauvism
Cubism
Expressionism
Byzantine Art
Transrational Poetry
Futurism
Constructivism
Abstract Expressionism
Minimalism
Pop Art
Conceptual Art
Malevich also had an interest in aerial
photography and aviation, leading to
aerial landscape inspired paintings.

15. "The emotion of
beauty is always
obscured by the
appearance of
the object.
Therefore, the
object must be
eliminated from
the picture."

16.  1872: Born in Holland to a cultured family
 1892: Royal Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam
 1905: Painted in Dutch Luminist Style
 1908: Netherland’s Theosophical Society. (Evolution 1911)
 1912 - 1914: Lived in Paris. Cubist influence.
 1917: De Stijl Journal (The Style). Idea of total abstraction,
modernism, led to Neo-Plasticism movement.
 1920s: Most abstract period
 1938: London.
 1940: Because of WWII moves to NYC (Broadway Boogie
Woogie 1943)
 1944: Death

17. Influences on Mondrian Influences caused by Mondrian
Vincent van Gogh
Paul Cézanne
Pablo Picasso
Theo van Doesburg
Ilya Bolotowsky
Leon Polk Smith
Theo van Doesburg
Peggy Guggenheim
Philosophy
Buddhism/Theosophical studies
Cubism
Impressionism
Fauvism
Luminism
De Stijl
Abstract Expressionism
Color Field Painting
Minimalism
"All the time I'm driven to the spiritual. Through
Theosophy I became aware that art could provide
a transition to the finer regions, which I will call the
spiritual realm."

21. “I had to
create an
equivalent for
what I felt
about what I
was looking at -
not copy it.”

22.  1887: Born in Wisconsin and received art lessons at home
 1905: Art Institute of Chicago, then Arts Students League in
NYC
 1908: Won William Merritt Chase still-life prize
 1912 - 1916: Taught art at various schools
 1916-1946: Husband Stieglitz supported her art and
organized exhibitions at different galleries.
 1929: New Mexico landscape paintings
 1970s: Though going blind, still produced abstract pieces
 1986: Death in New Mexico

23. Influences on O’Keeffe Influences caused by O’Keeffe
Arthur Wesley Dow
Alon Bement
Auguste Rodin
Wassily Kandinsky
Alfred Stieglitz
Judy Chicago
Andy Warhol
Asian Art
Art Nouveau
Modernism
American Modernist Painting
Precisionism
Abstract Expressionism
She was also influenced by the architecture
of NYC and the landscapes of New Mexico.

28.  Political and Social changes in Europe.
Ex: Russian Revolution, Communism
 World War I & II. Caused relocation of
artists.
 Science and Philosophy. Ex: Freud,
Einstein
 Avant-Garde Movement and creative
independence = a reaction to
industrialization and political conflict

29.  “The Nazis confiscated 57 of Kandinsky’s
canvases during their purge of
"degenerate art" in 1937”
 Stalinist regime was against abstract art
and banned much of Malevich’s work as
well.
 Many males perceived O’Keeffe’s work as
over sexualized and “shameless.”
 Public opinion of Mondrian’s work was
divided; ranging from “aesthetically
pleasing” to “a child could do it.”

30.  Abstractionism artists played a large role
in the development of other modern art
movements, including Abstract
Expression, Pop Art, and Color Field
Painting.