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Madeline Burgett and Gina De Biasi

Abstractionism[1]

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Madeline Burgett and Gina De Biasi

Haystacks by Monet

Impression Sunrise by Monet

Annecy by Cezanne

There is the Temple by Paul Gauguin

Science

Psychology

Great Depression

WWI/WWII

Philosophy

Music

Fauvists/expressionists: remove

connection between color &

nature, simplified, emotional

Cubists: challenge dimensions of

space by dividing objects into

numerous planes

Futurists: challenge notion of time

Humanity lost touch with spirituality through attachment and increased value of material things

Art serves as means to rekindle spiritual awakening and return to harmony with universe

Abstractionism does this by reducing paintings to bare essentials/ eliminating association with physical world by using colors, forms, lines, and symbols, thereby gaining spiritual experience

express human’s most intimate emotions

Winter Landscape 1909

Impression III Concert 1911

Black Arch 1912

Composition VII 1913

Taking in the Rye 1912

Desk and Room 1913

Suprematist Composition 1915

Black Square 1915

Red Mill 1908

The Gray Tree 1909-1913

Red tree -1909

Composition with red, blue

and yellow

Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-1943