Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism is a movement in
American painting of the late 1940s and
early 1950s acclaimed throughout the
world. The dominance of American art dates
from the success of the Abstract
Expressionists, their formal innovations and
new techniques were crucial to
the development of Western art, and many artists
today still make use of
their ideas or react against them. Abstract
Expressionism was first used
to describe the works of Kandinsky and Robert
Coates. The main
characteristics of Abstract expressionism paintings are large
scaled,
generally abstract but with some figurative elements. The artists had
laid
great stress on the process of painting, regarding it as a ritual act,
they
often used household paints and developed methods of applying them to
the
canvas, The major figures of the movement were Willem De Kooning,
Jackson
Pollock..etc.
Bibliography
Willen De Kooning:
Easter Monday, 1956 Jackson
Pullock: No.1 (Lavender Mist), 1950