Abstract

Painting

Concept

Is a trend of the twentieth century . It seeks to break away from

traditional representation of physical objects. It explores the
relationships of forms and colors, whereas more traditional art
represents the world in recognizable images.

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was born on December, 16th , 1866 in

Moscow, in a well-to-do family of a businessman in a good
cultural environment. In 1871 the family moved to Odessa where
his father ran his tea factory. There, alongside with attending a
classical gymnasium (grammar school), the boy learned to play
the piano and the cello and took to drawing with a coach.. In
Kandinsky's works of his childhood period we can find rather
specific color combinations, which he explained by the fact that
"each color lives by its mysterious life".

Wassily Kandinskys Paintings

Wassily Kandinskys Artistic file

Name

Vasili Vaslievich Kandinski

Born&Dead

16 december1866,Moscu, Rusia
13 December 1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine,
france

Nacionality

Russian-Franais

Biographic facts

His father Silvstrovich Vasili Kandinsky

was a tea merchant from kyakhta, a
source close to the border with Mongolia
Siberian population

Art style

lyrical abstraction:pictorial expression of

the emotion of the artist and
expressionism: deformation of reality

3 pictures about his style

Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, was a Dutch painter.

Mondrian was a contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group,

which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a nonrepresentational form which he termed neoplasticism. This consisted of
white ground, upon which he painted a grid of vertical and horizontal
black lines and the three primary colors.[2]

Mondrian's arrival in Paris from the Netherlands in 1911 marked the

beginning of a period of profound change. He encountered experiments
in Cubism and with the intent of integrating himself within the Parisian
avant-garde removed an 'a' from the Dutch spelling of his name
(Mondriaan)

Piet Mondrians Paintings

Piet Mondrians Artist file

Name

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan

Born&Dead

(Amersfoort,7 may1872-Nueva
York,1 february1944)

Nacionality

Dutch

Biographic facts

He was born into a Calvinist family.

From 1892 to 1908 he studied at the
State Academy in Amsterdam, where
his teacher was August Alleb.

Art style

Neoplasticism:deprives the art of all

accessory element in an attempt to
reach the essence through an objective
plastic language

3 pictures about his style

Jackson Pollock

American painter, the most prominent member of Abstract Expressionism. He was

born in Cody, Wyoming and studied at the Art Students League of New York with
Thomas Hart Benton. He spent several years traveling the country and drawing. In
the late 1930s and early 1940s he worked in New York in Projects Administration
Federal Art Project (Federal Art Project). His first works, in the naturalistic style of
Benton, Americans represent scenes realistically. Between 1943 and 1947 Pollock,
influenced by surrealism, adopted a freer and more abstract, as in The Little Foxes
(1943, Museum of Modern Art, New York) style. From 1947 he evolved into Pollock
Abstract Expressionism, developed the technique of action painting or dripping,
consisting of pouring, dripping or throwing paint leave on unstretched canvas. Pollock
made by this method schemes intertwined shapes as shown in the examples Full
fathom five and Lucifer (both from 1947, Museum of Modern Art, New York). Brown
also belongs to this era and silver I (1951, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid). From
1950 his style changed again, returning to the figuration in black and white, in a
virtuoso style. Among the paintings of his last period stands grayness Ocean (1953,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York). He died on August 11, 1956 as a result
of an automobile accident.

Jackson Pollocks Paintings

Jackson Pollocks Artist file

Name

Paul Jackson Pollock

Born&Dead

January 28, 1912 August 11, 1956

Nacionality

American

Biographic facts

Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in

1912, the youngest of five sons. His
parents, Stella May and LeRoy Pollock,
were born and grew up in Tingley, Iowa
and were educated at Tingley High School.

Art style

Abstract espressionism: is a postWorld

War II art movement in American painting

3 pictures about his style