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Georges Mathieu and Abstract Expressionism in Europe
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Georges Mathieu and Abstract Expressionism in Europe

Abstract Expressionism in Europe
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 1/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Students will learn about and Abstract Expressionism in Europe
  • Students will learn about themselves as artists.
  • Students will be able to expand their plastic consciousness.
  • Students will shake hands with these great masters.

Course content

1 section • 13 lectures • 1h 8m total length

  • Introduction4:09

    Explore Georges Mathieu and abstract expressionism in Europe, a parallel movement to America, and learn by sketching to understand the artists' hand in a painterly, contemporary art experience.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 27:53

    Explore Europe’s abstract expressionists, highlighting minimalistic yet dynamic works with black tonality, translucent blues, and visible brushstrokes in lithographs and non-objective compositions.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 36:32

    Explore Georges Mathieu's abstract expressionism in Europe through rhythm, dexterity, and bold strokes, including filbert brush techniques and evocative posters and cityscapes from New York to Mexico.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 44:25

    Traces the development of Nicholas de Stijl, a Russian artist (1914–1955), whose Tunis encounters with ARP and Delanys yield expressive cubist, abstract expressionist paintings with impasto.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 54:45

    Explore abstract expressionism in Europe through textural mixed-media works in earth colors, yellow ochre, and burnt sienna, featuring diagonals, movement, and sculptural edge that invites close viewing.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 65:17

    Explore Alberto Burri's textural, relief-dominated works in Europe, using moist cloth on wood to create collages such as two shirts, with photographic documentation.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 75:31

    Explore Lucio Fontana's minimalist, Arte Povera-inspired works in Europe, examining glass-covered canvases with holes and slashes that redefine the fragile matrix, and the spatial concepts behind this probing art.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 86:12

    Hartung's evolution from surrealist beginnings to a signature Reaganism of heavy-to-feathered brushstrokes shapes abstract expressionism in Europe, with lessons on push-and-lift strokes and lyrical regions.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 92:29

    Explore abstract expressionism in Europe through subtle, meditative works with oriental influences, minimalistic forms, and experimental techniques like papier mache and horizontal compositions.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 101:51

    Explore abstract expressionism in Europe through German Expressionists, whose intense, psychologically challenging works express nervous energy, including 1949 bird and the mad boar with branching tree stumps in the wind.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 111:38

    Explore abstract expressionism in europe through belgian artist Andre Michaud, with mostly quiet works viewed to gentle background music and notes on mescaline and peyote.

  • Abstract Expressionism Europe 124:43

    Explore how Jean Paul Riopelle, though Canadian, aligns more with European abstract expressionism than American expressionism. Create a final painting in studied artists' styles using pastels.

  • Course Catalog12:49

Requirements

  • There are no requirements or prerequisites for this course.

Description

Abstract Expressionism in Europe

Art is a state of Plastic Consciousness. Federico von Borstel

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

Pierre Soulages

Georges Mathieu

Nicolas de Stael

Antoni Tapies

Alberto Burri

Lucio Fontana

Hans Hartung

Jean Fautrier

Wols

Henri Michaux

Jean-Paul Riopelle

Optional Materials: Sketchbook, 11 in. x 14 in., 27.9 x 35.6 cm, 60 lb., 89 g/m2

All graphite pencils, soft, Pencil, 2B. Kept sharp, Pencil Sharpener

Pen, bold and medium, black. Straight edge, ruler, triangle

Erasers, Color pencils, Prismacolor, markers or other, Brush

This course is part of our Contemporary Art Courses which include:

•Introduction

•Precedents

•Abstract Expressionism

•Abstract Expressionism in Europe

•Post-Painterly Abstraction

•Transition Artists

•Minimalism

•Op Art

•Pop Art

•Collage and Assemblage

•Installation Art

•Performance, Environments and Happenings

•Earth Art

•Electronic and Video Art

•Hyper Realism

•Issue Based Art

Sensorial Art

The first generation of Abstract Expressionism flourished between 1943 and the mid-1950s. The movement effectively shifted the art world’s focus from Europe (specifically Paris) to New York in the postwar years. The paintings were seen widely in traveling exhibitions and through publications. In the wake of Abstract Expressionism, new generations of artists—both American and European—were profoundly marked by the breakthroughs made by the first generation, and went on to create their own important expressions based on, but not imitative of, those who forged the way.

Soulages has said, "My instrument is not black but the light reflected from the black.“ Naming his own practice Outrenoir, (Beyond Black) the paintings he produces are known for their endless black depth, created by playing with the light reflected off of the texture of the paint.


Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone interested in art.

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