Today’s class began by wrapping up our conversation of surrealism and Frida Kahlo. We spoke about how Frida did not consider her work surrealism as she was not painting her dreams, but instead painting her reality. The painting we looked at was titled “The Two Fridas” and depicted, on opposing sides, a Western Frida and the Mexican Frida. The Western Frida was painted with a lighter skin tone and less facial hair, while the Mexican Frida was dressed in a traditional, long skirt and had darker skin and features. We spoke about how her painting depicted her suffering after her tram accident and also alluded to her relationship with Diego Rivera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our conversation then shifted to a brief discussion of “De Stijl” or “the style” and neoplasticism. We spoke about the work of Piet Mondrian and the reduction found in his work. In his “Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow” there are only horizontal and vertical lines, as well as only the primary colors, black, and white. The painting is very flat and everything is on one plane. We also looked at a series of Mondrian’s tree painting to see his progression through reduction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We also spent some time discussing post war art and abstract expressionism\/action painting. These works are highly focused on the paint application and further reducing the figure\/ground relationship. A little bit later, by 1950, there were two tendencies in abstract expressionism: the action painting, and color field or chromatic abstraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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