Wednesday 28 August 2013

Abstract Expressionism


Mark Rothko : No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1951
Oil on Canvas, 1953, 115 cm × 92 cm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.



Jackson Pollock : Blue Poles, 1952
Enamel and aluminium paint with glass on canvas, 212.1 cm × 488.9 cm
Australian National Gallery, Canberra



Hans Namuth (photographer) : Pollock Painting, 1950



Robert Motherwell : Beside the Sea No. 5, 1962
Oil on paper, 73.7 × 58.4 cm
Dedalus Foundation, New York, U.S.A.



Franz Kline : New York, N.Y. , 1953
Oil on canvas, 200.7 × 128.3 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, U.S.A.

Expressionism


Albert Tucker : Victory Girls - 1943
Oil on cardboard 64.6 h x 58.7 w cm
National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra



Franz Marc : Gelbe Kuh (Yellow Cow), 1911
Oil on canvas, 140.5 × 189.2 cm
Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.



Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : Selbstbildnis Als Soldat (Self-Portrait As A Soldier), 1915
Oil on canvas, 69 x 61 cm
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio, USA


Thursday 8 August 2013

Roots of Expressionism


Wassily Kandinsky
Circles Post




Wassily Kandinsky
Black Lines 1 - 1913






Gustav Klimt
The Three Ages Of Woman (Die drei Lebensalter der Frau) - 1905
180cm x 180cm, oil on canvas




Gustav Klimt
The Kiss (Der Kuss) - 1907/08
180cm x 180cm, oil and gold leaf on canvas




Henri Matisse
Portrait of Madame Matisse (Green Stripe) (La Raie Verte) - 1905
40.50cm × 32.5cm, oil on canvas




Edvard Münch
The Scream (Skrik) - 1893
91cm × 73.5cm, oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard

Tuesday 6 August 2013

Op Art

Bridget Riley


Victor Vasarely

Mondrian



Piet Mondrian, Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow, 1930
Oil on canvas
Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy




Piet Mondrian, Composition No. VI, Composite 9 (Blue Facade)
Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 68 cm
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland




Piet Mondrian, Composition Trees II, 1912
Oil on canvas, 98 x 65 cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands




Piet mondrian, The Grey Tree, 1912
Oil on canvas, 79.7 x 109.1 cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands




Piet Mondrian, Avond (evening), Red Tree, 1908
Oil on canvas, 70 x 99cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

Suprematism



Kasimir Malevich, 'Red Square, Realism in paint of a peasant woman in two dimensions', 1915
Oil on canvas, 53 x 53 cm
St Petersburg, State Russian Museum




Kasemir Malevich, Suprematism (with eight rectangles), 1915
Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 48.5 cm
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum