Though never a formal movement or school, «AbEx» grouped together artists — including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still, amongst others — with interest in spontaneity, monumental size, the individual psyche, and
universal expressions of feeling.
Not exact matches
Technology now allows us to read facial
expressions and identify which
of the seven
universal emotions a person is
feeling: fear, anger, joy, sadness, disgust, surprise, or suspicion.
When our consciousness surrenders into the
universal, a radiance grows until we blossom into a fuller
expression often resulting in a sense
of timelessness, a
feeling of joy, or a laugh.
Your facial
expression is a
universal language and is a projection
of your inner
feelings.
Red A 1960, 1960, the artists» use
of red can be interpreted as an
expression of their individual psychological experiences, whereas Franz Kline and Rothko's monumental abstractions speak to a more
universal «scale
of human
feeling, the human drama.»
The artist came to believe that what was essential in art — given the diversity
of themes or motifs — were two
universal requirements: that every work
of art has an individual order or coherence, a quality
of unity and necessity in its structure regardless
of the kind
of forms used; and, second, that the forms and colors chosen have a decided expressive physiognomy, that they speak to us as a
feeling - charged whole, through the intrinsic power
of colors and lines, rather than through the imaging
of facial
expressions, gestures and bodily movements, although these are not necessarily excluded — for they are also forms.