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American Figurative Expressionism is a 20th-century visual art style or movement that first took hold in Boston, and later spread throughout the United States. Critics dating back to the origins of Expressionism have often found it hard to define. One description, however, classifies it as a Humanist philosophy, since it's human-centered and rationalist. Its formal approach to the handling of paint and space is often considered a defining feature, too, as is its radical, rather than reactionary, commitment to the figure.
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| dbo:abstract | American Figurative Expressionism is a 20th-century visual art style or movement that first took hold in Boston, and later spread throughout the United States. Critics dating back to the origins of Expressionism have often found it hard to define. One description, however, classifies it as a Humanist philosophy, since it's human-centered and rationalist. Its formal approach to the handling of paint and space is often considered a defining feature, too, as is its radical, rather than reactionary, commitment to the figure. The term "Figurative Expressionism" arose as a counter-distinction to "Abstract Expressionism." Like German Expressionism, the American movement addresses issues at the heart of the expressionist sensibility, such as personal and group identity in the modern world, the role of the artist as a witness to issues such as violence and corruption, and the nature of the creative process and its implications. These factors speak to the movement's strong association with the emotional expression of the artist's interior vision, with the kinds of emphatic brushstrokes and bold color found in paintings like Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night and Edvard Munch's The Scream that have influenced generations of practitioners. They also speak to the rejection of the outward-facing "realism" of Impressionism, and tacitly suggest the influence of Symbolism on the movement, which sees meaning in line, form, shape and color. The Boston origins of the American movement date to a "wave of German and European-Jewish immigrants" in the 1930s and their "affinities to the contemporary German strain of figurative painting ... in artists like Otto Dix (1891–1969), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), and Emil Nolde (1867–1956), both in style and in subject matter," art historian Adam Zucker writes. Calling Humanism the defining ideal of the American movement, Zucker says it was "inspired largely by political and/or social issues and conflicts," much as many of the practitioners of "mid-20th century art, including Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, took stances against war or wars, both on and off the canvas. Indeed, many Boston artists had links to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston or the Boris Mirski Gallery where painters like Karl Zerbe (1903–1972), Hyman Bloom (1913–2009), Jack Levine (1915–2010), David Aronson (b. 1923) studied, taught, exhibited and ultimately grew into activists after "openly challenging a statement issued by the Boston Institute of Modern Art under the heading ‘Modern Art and the American Public.'" Concerned that Boston's Brahmin museums would never support them, they founded the New England Chapter of Artists Equity to fight for their rights and organized the Boston Arts Festival to make art more democratic. Their ongoing work and modernist dialogues envisioned art "as a narrative that unfolded through the incorporation of figures and landscapes into allegories drawn ... from traditional or imagined subject matter, fueled by the artists’ experiences and spirituality. Their themes tended toward "scenes and images in which they expressed profound emotions, horrors and fantasies in a largely allegorical manner. Spiritual and fantastical scenes were thus common, and depictions of sublime religious displays, political satire, and treatments of the theme of human mortality ... all contributed to the progression of figurative painting and to the evolving definition of modern humanist art." (en) Американский фигуративный экспрессионизм (англ. American Figurative Expressionism) — движение изобразительного искусства XX века, которое впервые зародилось в Бостоне, а затем распространилось по всей территории Соединенных Штатов Америки. Искусствоведы и критики экспрессионизма, часто затрудняются дать чёткое определение арт-движению. Однако, одно из определении классифицирует движение как гуманистическую философию, поскольку оно ориентировано на человека и рационалистично. Формальный подход к обращению с краской и пространством также часто считается определяющей чертой, так как является радикальной, а не реакционной приверженностью фигуре. Термин «фигуративный экспрессионизм» возник как противопоставление абстрактному экспрессионизму. Подобно немецкому экспрессионизму, американское движение решает проблемы, лежащие в основе экспрессионистской чувствительности, такие как личная и групповая идентичность в современном мире, роль художника как свидетеля таких проблем, как насилие и коррупция, и природа творческого процесса и его последствия. Эти факторы говорят о сильной ассоциации движения с эмоциональным выражением внутреннего видения художника, с помощью решительных мазков и смелым выбором цветов в таких картинах, как «Звездная ночь» Винсента Ван Гога и «Крик» Эдварда Мунка. Они также говорят об отказе от внешнего реализма импрессионизма и предполагают влияние символизма, которое видит смысл в линии, форме, форме и цвете. (ru) |
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| dbp:caption | Edvard Munch, The Scream, oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 1893, National Gallery, Oslo (en) A detail from Ben Shahn's "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" series, 1931-32. (en) Kandinsky's radical change of style, illustrated on the cover of Der Blaue Reiter almanac, c. 1912. (en) Kandinsky's Der Blaue Reiter, painted in a style Kandinsky would reject within the decade, oil on canvas, 1903, Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich. (en) Max Beckmann's Self-Portrait with Horn, oil on canvas, 1938. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | American Figurative Expressionism is a 20th-century visual art style or movement that first took hold in Boston, and later spread throughout the United States. Critics dating back to the origins of Expressionism have often found it hard to define. One description, however, classifies it as a Humanist philosophy, since it's human-centered and rationalist. Its formal approach to the handling of paint and space is often considered a defining feature, too, as is its radical, rather than reactionary, commitment to the figure. (en) Американский фигуративный экспрессионизм (англ. American Figurative Expressionism) — движение изобразительного искусства XX века, которое впервые зародилось в Бостоне, а затем распространилось по всей территории Соединенных Штатов Америки. Искусствоведы и критики экспрессионизма, часто затрудняются дать чёткое определение арт-движению. Однако, одно из определении классифицирует движение как гуманистическую философию, поскольку оно ориентировано на человека и рационалистично. Формальный подход к обращению с краской и пространством также часто считается определяющей чертой, так как является радикальной, а не реакционной приверженностью фигуре. (ru) |
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