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Abstract Expressionism In Abstract Art

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Art shifts through time, it is combined of different movements. This research paper will discuss the different shifts of art culture in style, philosophical approach, and content of artwork in abstract expressionism. Abstract expressionism is a painting movement that developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s in and around New York after world war II. Jackson Pollock, Isamu Noguchi, Martha Graham, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman are all artists that considerably influenced that movement. Artists always wanted to express themselves in the paintings and show what they are feeling. Some of what these artists have had in common is that they have been living in New York City at the same time.

Abstract expressionism was all about emotional expression, non-objectivity, and action painting. These styles of painting was what made that art movement stand out and change the way we look at the artists work, for it is not clear and real capturing of images. There are two types of Abstract Expressionism: Color Field Painting, and Action Painting (Gestural painting). Abstract Expressionism developed was within the context of various, overlapping sources and inspirations. several of the young artists had created their beginning within the Nineteen Thirties. The Great Depression yielded two common art movements, …show more content…

Pollock 's energetic action paintings, with their "busy" feel, are totally different both technically and esthetically, to the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem De Kooning. The historiographer Meyer Schapiro saw the painting in de Kooning 's studio shortly later on and inspired the painter to persist. De Kooning 's response was to start three alternative paintings on a constant theme. The woman series are definitely figurative

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