After World War II, both in Europe and in the United States, was born the Informal Art. For me it is the highest expression of Abstract Art in which the artist, after sending disused traditional instruments hitherto used to paint, start exploring new techniques, new concepts of expression, new chromatic harmonies. Since that time the […]
Expressionism, a European cultural movement born in the early 1900s, was the revolution of language that opposed the subjectivity of Impressionism its subjectivity. The bases of expressionist poetics are the soul of the artist to reality, without mediation, are the “eyes of the soul” that induce the rebellion of the spirit against matter. In the […]
Mark Rothko, the most famous american abstract expressionist. He was born in Daugavpils in Latvia. His family emigrated to the United States when he was 10 years old. He attended Yale University and moved to New York in 1925, where he studied at the Art Students League. His first solo exhibition dates back to […]
Emil Nolde, one of the greatest expressionists of his time. He wrote: “There is blue silver, blue sky and blue thunder. Each color in the interior has a soul that makes me happy or repels me or that I acts as a stimulus … The colors range between heaven and earth “ Emil Nolde […]
“Faveus” art movement of short duration but high developmental impact in the art world. In their works is “The exaltation of pure color” the use of an “explosive color”. It is no longer important if the meaning of the work but it becomes important to the shape, the color, the immediacy. The emotional impact of […]