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| David C.T. Rasmuss Acrylic/The Jackson Method (Feb 2014). |
Introduction
to Abstract Expressionism by C.T. Rasmuss
Abstract
Expressionism was an
art movement which started in the 1940's, post World War II. These
artists valued spontaneity and improvisation, and they accorded the
highest importance to process. Their radical new direction was
responsible for shift the center of the art world's attention from
Paris to New York, as the new mecca; they created large scale works
representing each artist's individual psyches.
In
this class:
students will learn to get in touch with their individual 'psyches'
as the Masters from the original era of Abstract Expressionism did.
It will be structured via: factual art history lessons(short in
class) for inspirational purpose and technique demonstrated by the
instructor; it also will be loosely based, in order to allow each
student the freedom to find their own form of expression!
Suggested
supplies for this class: 1st
of all NO
EASELS
:) In class we will be painting on the table, possibly outside, on
the ground when weather clears up. Whenever you're on your own, make
yourself comfortable and paint on the floor; this will help
tremendously in developing texture, a key ingredient in this
fantastic form of art and self-discovery..
...We
will be using Acrylics(water based) in this class, don't spend a lot
of money on higher grades; as the point is expression, and you'll
more than likely be using high volumes per canvas. Canvas, buy
canvas at good deals, ask me what will work for class as eventually
all students will be doing their own thing, as no two psyches are
alike! Finally when it comes to brushes, I will provide the brushes,
as classes go one you'll learn about brushes, what they do and the
ones you'll eventually want to buy for yourself.
And
now a list of definitions for you to look up for your own benefit, as
well as Artists to learn:
Composition
Texture
Golden
Mean
Color
Theory
Abstract
art
Modern
Art
Surrealism
Surrealism
Action
Painting
The
New York School
Works
Progress Administration (WPA)
MOMA
Guggenheim
Museum
Peggy
Guggenheim
Artists:
Wasilly
Kandinsky,
Hans
Hoffman,
Jackson
Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Robert
Motherwell, William Baziotes, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Adolph
Gottlieb, Mark Tobey, Richard Pousette-Dart, and Clyfford Still
“Art
is what you make it” -C.T. Rasmuss ENJOY!!!
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