artist | works | Analysis of works |
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), an American artist, is a representative figure of abstract expressionism and action painting. |  The Rhythm of Autumn, No. 30, 1950 | Like many other paintings of Pollock, the artist first "paints" a linear basic composition with diluted black paint, which will penetrate into the unprimed canvas. On this basis, he randomly added various forms of lines. "Pollock's works are both improvised and designed. In the whole creation process, Pollock was very involved, as if performing on the canvas and communicating with the pictures." [5] As the title implies, the color and form of the picture evoke people's imagination of nature. |
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), a German American artist, is a representative figure of abstract expressionism and action painting. |  One of the Women series, 1950-1952 | The woman with a ferocious face is a complex of various images, which gathers various female image prototypes such as the goddess symbolizing reproduction in primitive totems, Venus in traditional images, and cover girls in contemporary commercial advertisements. She exists between the two opposite elements of dignity and weakness, reflecting the contradictory psychology of people's fear and awe of the fertility represented by women since ancient times. At the same time, this contradictory state also reflects the complex emotions of excitement and confusion of post-war European immigrants on the new continent of the United States, as well as the artist's contradictory choice between abstract and concrete art. [6] |
Mark Rothko (1903-1970), a Russian American artist, is a representative figure of abstract expressionism and color gamut painting. |  Black on Grey, 1969 | Black on Grey is Roscoe's work in his later years. The colors you see are directly painted on the white canvas, and there is no longer the background color that used to be slightly transparent. He only divided two areas, used very limited colors, and reduced the canvas to an appropriate size. Like a psychological drama that is both mysterious and tragic, the extreme contrast of light and dark in the picture evokes a sad feeling. [7] |
Barnet Newman（ Barnett Newman , 1905-1970), American artist, representative of abstract expressionism and color gamut painting. |  Man, Hero and Sublime, 1950-1951 | This huge abstract painting is more simple than Mondrian's abstract painting. The red picture is divided by three different colors and vertical lines of different shades. Like many of Newman's works, these vertical lines symbolize the divine light of creation, which no longer belongs to God, but to people in the ordinary world. Newman hopes that the audience can watch this work closely, as if facing themselves and feeling sublime in personal creation. [8] |
