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Spontaneous and abstract painting

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2014
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French Revolution in 1789 caused social, scientific, economic and artistic changes in world. Kingdoms collapsed in 18th century and the wind of freedom introduced new discoveries. The society that can travel and speak with freedom behaved different with the inventions. Research and inventiones were put emphasis on 19th century and importance of observation and experiments was revealed. 19th century caused artists to go out from their workshops and show up with works that directs their nature-related observations. Their use of brush that adds their comments on top of nature itself and use of prismatic color will lead to more abstract view. Abstractionism involves rendition for objects seen from nature while empressionism involves a subjective naturalism. Dramatic change in world phylosophy, scientific inventions, free thought and invention of camera created a change in art and stance of artist. Object, which was in domination of European art for 500 years, switched place with "subject". Cezanne was the lead of the art passing from naturalism to abstract. Cezanne base the universe to objects consists of solid static constuctures and reorganize them with a constructive way of look.Technological innovations in 20th century, inventions, social and psychological developments, Einsteins theories, Freud's assignations on psychoanalysis and substraction of atoms pointed out that the "truth" is not only the one can be seen.World War I has started in first quarter of 20th century. Artist met with expressionism that will host their personal feelings and rebellion triggered with economic and political chaos. Use of peevish brushes violent colors reflected their reaction to social matters. Artistic development has accelerated. Cubists aimed to embody the unseen parts of objects by using their various aspects; leading from Cezanne's landscapes and still lifes.Life has gained a brand new dynamic with technological innovations. Innovative artist subjects velocity and move to his/her work. Futurist artists express the contour of objects repeatedly to be able to tell the movement of objects. Artist was free after all that happened. Abstractionism which was based on expressionism showed up with the lead of Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich. Thought of Kandinskt in 1910 was the object of art is not "sense-observed reality" but "object of the art is a being that can not be understand with senses".Kazmir Malevich's world without objects get rid of world of ordinary objects with suprematic square shape. In same years, Piet Mondrian wanted art to dominate nature and pointed out that can only happen with "demolition" or "destruction". On the other hand, Klee did not need such abstraction and saw himself as a part of universal unity. Klee tries to make the unseen form of objects that is underneath the visible shell, thus the form he used was not forms from nature. Nine million infantry died in World War I (1914-1918). World War I was the sixth most-casualty war in human history and led many political change in countries.The World War II (1939-1945) which every industrial and scientific development was used for war was the most-causalty war in human history with 50-70 million of death. Although humanbeing thinks that it dominates nature, tsunamis, earthquakes, avalanches and volcanic explosions will make people understand how humanbeing is actually incapable of against nature. Although, artists get affected how some catastrophies are human related. Nuclear explosins, natural pollution, wounds that war caused and difference of opinions in religious matters step up to the limit of reaction of absraction. Spontaneous art which led by abstract expressionists has come until 21st century with different names. In parallel to that, space travels, discovery of our position in space, passing the sonic velocity, results of "Big Bang" experiment led artists to change their topics both in subject and in technic. Jakson Pollock was creating work on abstract expressionism between 1940 and 1950. Pollock points out the source of his work as his subconscious and he wanted to escape from the war and social events he witnessed. Far East and Native American art, which is symphatic for most of the abstract expressionists, chanded the perspective of European and American art for coincidences, soul and body. Now the mission of artist has changed. Concious that random is a being and protection of creativity and spontaneousness of freedom is welcome.While inspecting the reality fom neuro-scientific approach, abstraction of psychological environment named as "desociative-analysis situation" is expressed as passing from one reality to another in psychiatry.Moreno, who has investigated the antropology of creative humanbeing points out the cosmic core that existed from the beginning of universe. The essentials are spontaneousness, creaticity, action and permanence. Moreno said "The ones who can survive until tomorrow will be the creative ones who can use their creativity."Absract painting and spontaneous approaches during the historic developement of paint is discussed.

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Nalan Ünal Topdemir

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Nalan Ünal Topdemir (Master Thesis). Spontaneous and abstract painting, 2014, Yeditepe University.

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