Lecture 04 Abstract Expressionism & The New York School

Lecture 04 Abstract Expressionism & The New York School
ARTH3120 Contemporary Art
Travis Lee Clark
Utah Valley University
In this lecture we finally get to the mid-century. Yeah! We describe the group of womanizing drunkard geniuses that make up the New York School and how they turn a bar for longshoremen working stiffs into a mecca for bohemian artists and refugees from Europe. pfft. Hipsters. Amirite? But we get some great art out of it! And Abstract Expressionism takes over the art world and sets the ground for Contemporary art. Also, accidental dad jokes, as always. Enjoy.
Below is the link to the film about Jackson Pollock by Hans Namuth I mentioned.
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[@adamrara]

I just wrote "Elevate concept and process OVER the final outcome, USE process as a way to ACHIEVE the outcome" on a piece of paper, colored all over it and thumbtacked it to my wall. Thanks for that. I needed to hear it.

[@Johnconno]

Give up.

[@laconja1]

Really learned a lot from your lecture Thank you for Posting. I never really understood Abstract Expressionism But I have watched a few videos on the whole New York scene & the Abstract Expressionist Painter who started the whole movement & now I feel that I really am loving it. It’s like modern dance on a canvas.

[@TheBobe-scumart]

I have been in NYU LANGONE Hospital for about a month now and I've still got about 3 weeks left to go. I am an artist, for the most part, self-taught...I did study art in college for a year before quitting due to my negative behavior, including addiction. I create art, one, because it's all I know how to do, and two, because it's all I want to do. For many years I created simp,you to just pay my way through life. I've always considered myself an artist in the pictorial sense...only now, in my later years- I'm 43 -ive developed into being an artist that has something to say. Anyhow...I want to thank you, @travis Lee Clark, for making this harrowing time in my life easier to pass through. I've always loved art history by way of books and documentaries. Though through your lectures, I've learned a hell of alot more. Again, thank you.

[@Artbyjunej]

Thank you so much for posting these. Since graduating i haven’t had a chance to continue my art history lessons and this is invaluable! Also love the way you tell these stories. Thank you!

[@jayumble8390]

These lectures are absolutely incredible! I have learned so much!

[@jmzjchai18]

Really great video! You’ve got so much to share and your ability to make it digestible and relatable is fantastic. Thanks for offering these on youtube…

[@willagnes8376]

Art history enthusiast here working in accounting. Your lectures are fantastic to listen to during work. Engaging and informative lectures. Much love from Canada.

[@anlerden4851]

I love Expressionism Abstract Art so much.😊😇🥰😍🤗

[@lisabuck2076]

Wonderful to revisit the Art Since WW2 that I took in college in the early 80s. Great lecture. My friend who, before watching this would tell you he didn't understand abstract art. Now he thinks he does.

[@naomicrook150]

thanks for this lecture, it's been one of my favorites! Abstract expressionism has always been one of my favorite movements so I loved to learn more about it.

[@hamburgler227]

Excellent lecture. It’s been a few years since I’d thought much about the movement and needed a refresher. You nailed it. Your insights and ability to make the connections are quite good.👍

[@elizabethrobbins9639]

Thank you, wow, the best lecture I've heard. Look forward to more with you.

[@gretchengraham6266]

LOVED THIS! This lecture is my idea of a good time. Thanks very much!

[@eminazeric6764]

Thank You for posting these lectures on You Tube .. A huge help in studying for my exam ... Understanding more about the artists themselves is gonna be a huge help to understand there works ..

[@r.j3773]

Amazing fantastic lecture, I really enjoyed it, and learned a lot from it. Thank you

[@tsengedie3039]

Thank you so much for sharing these lectures! It is very helpful for me as a visual design student. Truly appreciated. Warm regards from Tokyo.

[@nemanjazdravkovic2351]

Amazing job, thank you so much for this video!!!

[@missvickiemusic1]

Wonderful lecture, thank you so much!

[@subledger]

i am just getting into painting and love your vids. thumbs up

[@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343]

Thanks! Painting is like golf, great fun but a lifetime of frustration. ;)

[@laconja1]

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[@laconja1]

@@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343 Do you have a lecture about the Woman Abstract Expressionist Painters who also lived in New York During this time.

[@johnraffanello9825]

This guy is great love listening but if he thinks Pollock spontaneously created he is totally wrong. The mathematical structure is as clear as a bell.

[@AvsFan32]

This is fantastic

[@BrianCGibson]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@user-hi9fk9cx5y]

Spinning gold from excrement - these people are having themselves on - what do they do when Alice is not around - they live normal lives

[@zangasperic11]

Thank you.

[@jacksonpayne4188]

Love ya, but HARD disagree about the ab ex artists not making images, and reducing it to an “experience”. These are absolutely still images and that a big part of the point.

[@starkr111]

The AbEx painters were modern Neanderthals painting on the canvas walls of their chosen cave. I mean this in the best sense of that term as a clan of human beings expressing themselves and their world on their own terms. I may not see extinct animals in flight in their work but I do feel them in there often. Cavemen roaming the caverns of our not so modern metropolises.

[@byattwurns1553]

Is this an insult?

[@evelynramos445]

Unknown to the regular population!

[@rafaeldsouza3280]

really good work! thank you

[@gabykogut6462]

It's great to have these lectures but Leger (as in Fernand) is pronounced lay-JHAY. When "er" is a suffix in French, it is always pronounced like "ay" in English.

[@marypartridge5154]

My God im not meaning to be rude but there is a lot of bullshit with art. Im a painter and I have no clue what to call my art. If you ask me a lot of people will give abstract a go because drawing takes time and practise. Having said all of this one can learn realism but no one say could learn to do what abstracts and the likes of me do. All I can say is that us artists are driven monsters. Its the only thing we feel we are good at. Im not trying ti be rude as its very kind of you to teach us for free so thanx. Fascinating to hear about New York.

[@marypartridge5154]

I love Koonings early paintings and found this lecture as you got into it absolutely fascinating.

[@guibeck8259]

Aren't most abstract painters already great with realism? Picasso comes to mind

[@byattwurns1553]

Abstraction is alot harder because the standards are higher. I'm speaking as a classical artist here. I'm trying abstraction for the first time, it seems easy enough (the elements are simple). I tried making a Clifford still painting, but after two days I had nothing. Wrong texture, wrong color, God awful composition with no space. Things are easy when you're bad at it. Do you find abstraction easy?

[@michaelpoindexter8886]

Thomas Hart Benton not Thomas Benton Hart

[@traceyolsen308]

The program The CIA and Art showed how you could barely give this stuff away until the CIA started secretly funding it as some sort of ideological fight against Communist countries and their only supporting(?) Socialist Realism. Wouldn't this have badly distorted the Art Market?..people investing in Art they don't actually like because they think it will make a profit when resold? Also you didn't mention Kandinsky's and Mondrian's great interest in Theosophy and Spiritualism..many paintings that appear abstract with these and other artists work presumably wouldn't have appeared abstract to them but actually trying to depict Spirit Worlds and theosophical theories about colour etc? Also perhaps Kline's and Motherwell's (?) work being a sort of Cargo Cult version of Zen Buddhism? Resembling the forms used in the religion but without any of the meaning? +Didn't many of the Surrealists later developed interests in Esoteric Buddhism and Tantra, as well as European occultism so many of their apparent abstract works presumably were also attempting to be representational in that way? But it was a very interesting lecture, thank you.

[@francoisetesnier1143]

Peut--on traduire en francais ?

[@brandongorin7978]

side quests!

[@gabrielbearpig2]

27:00

[@gabykogut6462]

Malevich is pronounced muh-LAY-vitch

[@peterkerj7357]

39:53 benis

[@MrLjw1001]

All the laughter at the drinking and destructive lifestyles of these artists make the presenter seem like a shallow, immature teen showing off for his friends. It’s too bad, since he has good info and insights.

[@byattwurns1553]

He seemed mature to me, that's how most people act. You should see people more often.

[@jamesanonymous2343]

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[@lemonlimelukey]

whitoid abstractions 😂😂