Contemporary Arts 2

• Abstract expressionism - Artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotion and responses that objects and events arouse within a person.
• Action painting - Direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that involves the

  spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas.
• Color fields - have a unified single-image field and differ qualitatively from the gestural, expressive brushwork.
• Convergence, 1950 by Jackson Pollock
• Multiform, 1948 by Mark Rothko
• Optical art - branch of mid-20th- century geometric abstract art that deals with optical illusion.
• Zebra by Victor Vasarely
• Achaean by Bridget Riley
• Kinetic art - Art from any medium that contains movement perceivable

  by the viewer or that depends on motion for its effect.
• Abstraction by Alexander Calder
• Meta-Harmonie II by Jean Tinguely
• Minimalism - also called ABC art, is the culmination of

  reductionist tendencies in modern art.
• Untitled (stack) by Donald Judd