Describe the two movements of the New York School by using Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) and Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic, No. 34 as examples.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) exemplifies the style of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
2. Pollock dripped, poured, and flung thin paint onto the canvas in rhythmical, gestural lines to convey primal human nature.
3. Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic, No. 34, however, is an example of color field painting.
4. Motherwell used large, abstract fields of color, such as the heavy black shapes that crush lighter, colored shapes, to express the destruction of the Spanish democracy during the Spanish Civil War.
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