{"id":2720,"date":"2024-05-07T23:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T23:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2024-05-07T23:39:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T23:39:39","slug":"class-journal-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/05\/07\/class-journal-5-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Journal 5\/1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&#8217;s lecture focused on art post-World War II and particularly looked at the new art scene developing in New York City. After the Americans became the liberators of Europe during WWII, there was a shift in the center of the art scene from Paris to New York.  The new styles we see being born in this era are abstract expressionism and action painting or gestural abstraction. Jackson Pollock is the pioneer of action painting with drip technique. His style is the natural evolution of surrealism. He would meticulously drip and splatter paint onto a canvas on the floor. He had immense control over the paint, despite the wild look of the painting. <em>\u00a0Autumn Rhythm: Number 30<\/em> is one of his greatest works and the viewer can clearly see how it is a record of a certain activity. The focus of the paint in the center and less paint, as it approaches the edge of the canvas, highlights the control Pollock had over the paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A contemporary of Pollock is William de Kooning who became a major abstract expressionist after immigrating to America. His <em>Woman I<\/em> is a part of a larger series of portraits of women. Similar to Pollock his works are all about gesture and how the paint was applied. With Kooning&#8217;s works, we see the total abolishment of figure and ground. The same attention is given to the figure as is to the ground and they feel on equal plains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s lecture focused on art post-World War II and particularly looked at the new art scene developing in New York City. After the Americans became the liberators of Europe during WWII, there was a shift in the center of the art scene from Paris to New York. The new styles we see being born in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}