1. Non- Representational/ Abstract Art
Brandi McGhie and Chandler Carson

2. Vocabulary
Non-representational: Non-representational art is work that does not represent or depict a being, a place, or a thing in the natural world.
Abstract: Art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.
Abstract Expression: Abstract Expressionism signaled a new age of American artistic expression in the immediate postwar period (the late 1940s and 1950s).

3. Vocabulary
Color-Field Painting: A kind of Abstract Expressionism characterized by large areas of color that are more dominant than any particular shape.
The New York School: A group of artists in New York City during the 40’s and 50’s paving the way for a new type of art.

4. Beginning of Abstract Art
Political instability in Europe in the 1930s brought several leading Surrealists to New York, and many of the Abstract Expressionists were profoundly influenced by Surrealism's focus on mining the unconscious.

5. Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.

6. Abstract Expressionism
It is often characterised by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity
Artists used Abstraction to convey strong emotional content

7. Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky is credited as the pioneer of abstract art.
He was extraordinarily sensitive to color and could see music in colors.
The latest physics discovery showed that energy held the universe together, and Kandinsky believed his color could show energy in his paintings.

8. Blue Mountain
Landscape

9. Dominant Curve, Wassily Kandinsky

10. Piet Mondrian
Mondrian wanted to create paintings that could be universally understood.
All of his paintings avoided reference to the real world
He only used primary colors (red, blue, and yellow), primary values (black and grey), and primary directions (horizontal and vertical)
He started an art movement in 1917 called De Stijl (The Style) after World War 1, to integrate life and art.

11. Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow, Mondrian

12. Broadway Boogie Woogie, Piet Mondrian
It was his last complete painting and his most famous one. This painting was inspired by the city grid of Manhattan and the Broadway Boogie Woogie music, which Mondrian loved.

13. Georgia O’Keeffe
Carved out her own style apart from the chaotic art scene of the time.
She took an inspiration from the world around her and then reworked it into a personal statement
Sometimes they would turn out literally, but other times they would be totally abstract.
She also paved the way for female artists

14. Abstraction White Rose, O’Keefe

15. Abstraction Blue, Georgia O'Keeffe

16. Jackson Pollock
Pollock helped father the Abstract Expressionism movement
He was widely noticed for his technique of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles
It was called the drip technique
Pollock was part of the New York School

17. Convergence, Pollock

18. Lavender Mist, Jackson Pollock

19. Willem De Kooning
Like Pollock he was an Abstract Expressionist painter.
His paintings were moving away from representational imagery towards pure abstraction.
He used a signature style that fused vivid color and aggressive paint handling with deconstructed images of the female form
He also was a contributor to the New York School

20. Women Singing, Willem de Kooning

21. Door to the River, Willem De Kooning

22. Mark Rothko Developed Color Field Paintings in 1947
He wanted to express basic human emotions through his paintings
Found his place and New York, and also became one of the New York School painters

23. Untitled, Mark Rothko Orange and Yellow, Mark Rothko

24. Green on Blue, Mark Rothko

25. Hans Hoffman
One of the most influential art teachers of the 20th century
His influence was on the illusion of three-dimensional space, composition, and the optical effects of color.
He explored the relativity of color, developing his “push-pull” theory and technique by which warm and cool colors interact to produce effects of movement, space, and depth.
He believed in pure paintings, which had no reference to the real world

26. Pompeii, Hans Hoffman
Cathedral, Hans Hoffman

27. Memoria in Aeternum, Hans Hofmann

28. Helen Frankenthaler Hans Hofmann's student
Became famous with her color- stain technique
She would apply thin washes of paint to her unprimed canvas
Eventually became a part of the New York School

29. Provincetown Window, Helen Frankenthaler
Canal, Helen Frankenthaler

30. Mountains and Sea, Helen Frankenthaler