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GERMAN

INTERNET  EXHIBITION

of the DADAISM over the ABSTRACTS EXPRESSIONISM to the POP ART

AMERICAN ARTISTS

  This exhibition shows accents, how the art of the USA along-coined/shaped the appearance and the idea history of the art 20 of the century crucially.  In contrast to the European art, those their high points in the first decades 20. Century had reached, by the Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Dada up to the Surrealism, ran the development of America by as outstanding artist personalities as Man Ray and Robert Rauschenberg. 

The meeting Marcel Duchamp (1881/1968) with Man Ray its arrival in New York was right after the beginning of a close artist friendship and a creative cooperation, which up to the end of the life of one persisted Ray.  Together with Francis Picabia created Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp the New Yorker Dada movement with Katherine Dreier ( 1920 > the Société Anonyme in New York<, the first Museum for Modern Art in the USA. 

The devastating effect, which the Second World War had European culture, particularly in Germany, stood behind the resolution to establish the intellectual foundation of the creative one again; that seemed possible only outside of the old artistic traditions, which doubtful the war had made.  The demand for a new creative incentive in Europe met a phase of over-foaming vitality in the American Art, that whose cause was understood only later.  Encouraged by private and public commitment and under the influence rapidly reacting art dealer, the current of the art and the artistic influence turned.

For the first time in history it began to move from America to Europe. Considerably into the fifties years were the controlling works of the Abstract Expressionism so among other things of

o       Robert Rauschenberg (see illustratlion of  rau001 and rau002), while for instance starting from the center of the sixties straight this Abstract Expressionism seemed already again as old fashionable.  Noise mountain brought later the existing problem concisely on the point:  > a illustratlion should look not like something, which it is not, but after something that it actually is<, for example from the direct environment, as the everyday these subject of the large city culture and so on.  In the work of noise mountain the aesthetic function of the coincidence and the ambiguous came fully to the development. 

The in Germany born and former artistic director of a large publishing house in Munich, of the national socialists refugee

o       Richard Lindner, established itself 1941 in New York, he received to 1948 the American nationality.  First he worked as successful advertising commercial artists for Vogue, and then informed Lindner on the Pratt of institutes in Brooklyn, New York.  Lindner was often brought because of the erotic representations by figures in connection with the Pop Art, although its literary and autobiographic drafts proved their own style (see illustratlion of lin001, lin002, lin003).

  o       Alfred Jensen, used characters and numbers in its symbolic abstractions gladly, to which him, Leonardos writings and different number systems have the occupation with Goethe's chromatics lively, which brought it in addition, into the proximity of Rauschenberg (see illustratlion of jen002 and jen003), although it belonged to an older generation.  With analytic mark ways Jensen uses chessboard-like and circular samples and over-old it with mystic indications (see illustratlion of jen001).

o       SamFrancis, painter of the Abstract Expressionism. Francis manufactures numerous lithographs (see illustratlions of frc001 to frc007) to 1959 takes part it to > the         Documenta 2< and 1964 to > the Documenta 3< in Kassel. 1969 lend the Universityof California in Berkeley to it.  1978:  Exposition SAM FRANCIS, peintures récentes 1976-1978 France, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou/Mnam - Galeries of contemporaines et forum, expositions individual.

o       Kimber Smith, an abstract artist and expressive Tachist (see illustratlion of smi001 to smi004).  Special exhibitions:  1951,1952 and 1953 in the "New Gallerie in York" 1959 Klipstein & Kornfeld in Berne and in the Peridot Gallerie in New York.  Literature:  Art Digest –Arts- 1958 NR.  25. 

o       Alfred Leslie, studies on the Art Students League (1946) at the Art and with Tony Smith to the New York University (1946-1948).  In the fifties it issues illustratlions, which are affected by the Abstract Expressionism.  By omitting any about not belonging background, he forces the viewer, on the central placed figure to concentrate (see illustratlion of les001 and les002).

o       Robert Indiana, after his return to the USA established himself he in New York.  1955 he became acquainted with Ellsworth Kelly, whose > Hard edge<-Abstraction affected its style in the late fifties fundamentally.  Starting from 1961  Indiana created strict illustratlions mil large sized letter applied with a template and > Hard edge< samples, which occupy the influence again by Kellys work.  Indianas assumption of the minimalist  manifestations of describing and commercial indications in these illustratlions illustrated its tendency to catch the experience modern America a goal, which reflects itself also in its decision (see illustratlion of  ind003).

§         On the occasion of the publication of works of the pressure graphics and posters of Robert Indiana (edition Domberger Stuttgart and New York of 1971) wrote William Katz in the introduction: >In the way he worked he distilled that quality of American directness, which is its own manner of intimacy - the bright glow of its optimism shielding a hard, fast sense of pragmatic reality, even cynicism. Generosity tempered by its formal contexts. From his living and working, Robert Indiana grew to become a painter of American words, painter of American signs and symbols, painter of American Dreams (America still having dreams). His attention produced a body of work which began to constitute a kind of interior American landscape<.  

With the Pop Art since the beginning of the sixties became the advertisement, which brings up for discussion Comics.  The Pop Art in America did not run without concept, it gave a communist manifesto as in the era of the Abstract Expressionism (Nouveau Realisme).   

The majority of those, which should form the group of cores later, dissociated itself even on the one hand or other time from this term.  At the latest 1961 however, when always frequent Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg into the foreground stepped, became clear that two different currents of > new Realism < had flowed together or > Neo Dada <, in order to form a double-railed American category, although all six artists investigated possibilities of cleaning their art from the Abstract Expressionism to. One must take to the knowledge that the Pop Art embodied the spirit of the time and also society-critical topics.

Which following

o       Allan Kaprows (see illustratlion of kap001 and kap002) accumulations from the surrounding field, which garbage of the large city culture came.  Between the both bearings

§         Wesselmann and Rosenquist occupied fewer clearly outlined terrain, whereby

o       Wesselmann (see illustratlion of wes001) tended to the Collage of elements of the printed advertisement and pieces of find, while

o       Rosenquist preferred the Giantism of fragmentary parts of advertisement surfaces (see illustratlion of ros002), which he by one - his talents as poster painters accordingly - sumptuous colour (see illustratlion of ros003) interconnected. 

§         All together learned and experienced advertising artists in different sections, left themselves them by the new possibilities, which had suggested Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in their art, how inspire also by certain aspects of the customs art originally practiced by them, in order to find a language in the high art.   

Among the painters the efforts still applied primarily compositions, which filled out the whole image plane freely from illusions.  Oldenburg, Wesselmann and Dine penetrated by their special kind of the constructions into this area.  The group used anti- naturalism colors in your work on, like that for example

o       Lichtenstein:  Red, yellow, blue and black (see illustratlion of lic001, lic002, lic003);  

o       Wesselmann:  Red, white, blue and yellow (see illustratlion of wes002 and wes003);

o       Oldenburg:  the basic colours;  (see illustratlion of old001, old003, old004);

o       Dine:  Grey, illustratlion intersperses colours (see illustratlion of din001 and din002).  The most obvious exception was  

o       Rosenquist, which gave the early monochrome up colour patterns soon, in order the entire spectrum to investigate (see illustratlions of ros001, ros002, ros003).   

Andy Warhol was first, which 1949 as a fresh graduate of the Pittsburgher Carnegie Institute of Technology in New York arrived.  It became soon one the most successful illustrator of New York.  Its designs were regularly issued, 1956 even in the Museum of Modern Art.  1958 it was in every detail informed about it, what Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns made, and its most ardent desire was to be likewise gotten the acknowledgment, which had these two in the world of the Art already.  

Roy Lichtenstein, a veteran with a degree of Master of Arts of Ohio State University and training as technical draughtsmen, should resettle 1963 to New York, had there however already 1951 its first single exhibition and showed 1952 its half abstract, half realistic illustratlions. Lichtenstein turned to 1960 under the influence of Allan Kaprow and the circle of the Rutgers University of a Pop-illustratlion-language.  

As next came 1955 James Rosenquist from Minnesota to New York.  After it had proven unusual talent as a painter of wide advertisement walls, it received a scholarship for the kind Students League and made in the same year the acquaintance also Robert Indiana against 1957 was personally well-known it also with Johns, Rauschenberg and Ellsworth Kelly, and it took 1959 in one of Robert Indiana and Jack Youngerman organized course indication instruction, in which also Claes Oldenburg and Henry Pearson participated.  

After the attendance of the Yale University and kind of institutesof Chicago as well as a temporary activity as magazine Illustrator Claes Oldenburg was resettle 1956 to New York, where it worked in the library of the Cooper union School of Art and Architecture.   

In the same year Tom Wesselmann (B. A. in Psychology, University of Cincinnati) received a scholarship for training as the Cartoonist at the Cooper Union School. 

The exhibits shown in this exhibition belonging to the Pop Art for example of

The Pop Art in the USA was at this time on the high point, museums in New York, Washingten and Housten strove at the same time for the new avant-garde, which was called partially also Neo Dada, New Realism, Common Object Painting or also as Neo Surrealism. Hans Terwege

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