RICHTER ART HISTORY II - EASY

JACKSON POLLOCK

AFTER WWII THE CENTER OF POWER SHIFTED

FROM EUROPE TO THE UNITED STATES AND THE USSR.  THE SOVIETS SUPPRESSED ALL ART EXCEPT SOCIALIST REALISM SO THE AVANT-GUARD MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES.  ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN MOVEMENT TO GAIN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION.

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

SPECIALIZED IN ANTI-ART PRANKS

DADA MOVEMENT

CIVILIZED MANS OBSESSION CAUSES WITH RATIONALISM CAUSES HIM TO BANISH INTUITION AND IMAGINATION, TO CONDEMN EVERYTHING THAT BUBBLES UP FROM THE UNCONSCIOUS.

SURREALISM

RUSSIAN AVANT-GUARD MOVEMENT: THEY STRIPPED AWAY EXTRA FROM ART SO THAT "ART WAS USEFUL AND AESTHETIC FRILLS HAMPER USE."

CONSTRUCTIVISM

A RUSSIAN AVANT-GUARD MOVEMENT: "THE SUPREMACY OF PURE FEELING IN ART".

SUPREMATISM

• BY THE 20TH CENTURY THE REAL WORLD WAS DOMINATED BY THE CAMERA,  SIGMUND FREUD AND CARL JUNG WERE EXPLORING THE UNCONSCIOUS AND EINSTEINS THEORY OF RELATIVITY CHANGED OUR PERCEPTION OF REALITY.  THIS LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABSTRACT, NONOBJECTIVE ART AND SURREALISM.