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- Painting
- Artist: Bacon
- Era: Postwar Expressionism
- Techniques:
- skewed perspective
- body hangs like crucifixion
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- Study After Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
- Artist: Bacon
- Era: Postwar Expressionism
- Techniques:
- figure merges with dark rays that surround it
- blurriness suggest shifting uncertainty
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- Death Comes of the Old Lady
- Artist: Michals
- Era: Postwar Expressionism
- Techniques:
- movement expressed through grainy soft focus
- blur represents supernatural
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- Vie Inquiete
- Artist: Dubuffet
- Era: Postwar Expressionism
- Techniques:
- incised lines
- layer of imposto
- high horizon line
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- Man Pointing
- Artist: Giacometti
- Era: Postwar Expressionism
- Techniques:
- elongated, featureless figure
- emphasis on space around figure
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- City Square
- Artist: Giacometti
- Era: Postwar Expressionism
- Techniques:
- featureless, elongated figures
- face different directions because they never meet
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- Cardinal
- Artist: Manzu
- Era: Postwar Expressionism
- Techniques:
- robes reduce body
- delicately modelled irregularities in surface
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- Lavender Mist
- Artist: Pollock
- Era: Abstract Expressionism
- Techniques:
- household paints
- cut off edges of canvas so that paint gose off edge - alludes to eternity
- "all over" composition - no focus
- gestural abstraction
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- Lucifer
- Artist: Pollock
- Era: Abstract Expressionism
- Techniques:
- household paints
- cut off edges of canvas so that paint gose off edge - alludes to eternity
- "all over" composition - no focus
- gestural abstraction
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- Painting
- Artist: Kline
- Era: Abstract Expressionism
- Techniques:
- gestural abstraction
- enlarged jagged form
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- Woman I
- Artist: Kooning
- Era: Abstract Expressionism
- Techniques:
- scrapes away surface everyday
- gestural sweeping brushstrokes
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- Man and Woman in a Large Room
- Artist: Diebenkorn
- Era: Abstract Expressionsim
- Techniques:
- alternating dark and light hues
- suggested recession into space
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- Muscians
- Artist: de Stael
- Era: Abstract Expressionism
- Techniques:
- mosaic like colored shapes
- simplification of form and character
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- Vir Heroicus Sublimis
- Artist: Newman
- Era: Abstract Expressionism
- Techniques:
- color field painting
- zips create energy
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- No. 14
- Artist: Rothko
- Era: Abstract Expressionsim
- Techniques:
- color field
- subtle tonal variations
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- Four Darks in Red
- Artist: Rothko
- Era: Abstract Expressionism
- Techniques:
- color field
- implied that it is monochromatic
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- Cubi XVIII
- Artist: David Smith
- Era: Abstract Expressionism
- Techniques:
- simple geometric forms
- activates surface with lighting
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- Cubi XXVI
- Artist: David Smith
- Era: Abstract Expressionism
- Techniques:
- simple geometric forms
- activates surface with lighting
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