PREMIUM LOGIN

ClassTools Premium membership gives access to all templates, no advertisements, personal branding and many other benefits!

QR Challenge: Abstract Expressionism

Question	Answer
After what important event was abstract expressionism created?	World War 2
What year did abstract expressionsm began?	1943
Where did abstract expressionism grow?	New York
Abstract expressionism values art grounded on what?	Personal Experience
What does avant-garde mean?	New and unusual or experimental ideas
Abstract expressionism was influenced by what other art movement?	Surrealism
For what style was Jackson Pollock well known?	Surrealism
What is the name of Jackson Pollock’s most famous abstract impressionist painting?	Lavender Mist
Mention 1 characteristic of Abstract Expressionism.	Rebellious, anarchic, highly idiosyncratic, nihilistic.
What was the name of the most prominent and celebrated of the Abstract Expressionist painters?	Willem de Kooning.
How did Willem established his reputation?	With a series of entirely abstract pictures.
He felt a strong pull towards what?	Traditional subjects.
He become most famuos for his pictures of _____.	women.
Later he turned to __________.	landscapes.
His mind was significantly impaired by what?	Alzheimer disease.
Mention the name of one of Willem de Kooning´s paintings.	Valentine, Woman, Woman 1,2,3,4, and 5, Seated Woman, etc.