Figurative Expressionism was ruined as an esthetic possibility by the realities of World War II and its death camps when photography surpassed any distortions of the body an artist could imagine. Many artists struggled but lost in their attempts to maintain a mythic-religious imagery in the face of increasing secularization of 20th-century life. We examine the insufficiencies this led to when an art world, avid for the importance of myths, tried to extract too much from paintings that could not deliver a complete religious content (e.g., Newman and Rothko). Join Robert Hughes as he presents the concepts of Figurative Expressionism, the Modernist, abstract art, and Abstractionism, as well as artists Van Gogh, Gauguin, Edvard Munch and his primal work The Scream, Oskar Kokoschka, Roger Bacon, Paul Clay, Kandinsky, and Jackson Pollock.

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Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890, Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903, Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944. Scream (Nasjonalgalleriet (Norway)), Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980, Clay, Paul, Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944, Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956, Modernism (Art), Art and society, Artists--Interviews, Figurative expressionism, Art, Abstract

The shock of the new

Hughes, Robert (Author of screenplay, etc.), Pegram, Lorna (Producer), Cheshire, David (Producer), Ambrose Video Publishing (Distributor), British Broadcasting Corporation (Producer), Time-Life Films (Producer), Reiner Moritz Productions (Producer)

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English

Art history students, World history students

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