Letter To The Metropolitan Museum Of Art In New York

There are many types and forms of art in this world. Everywhere you look there is art. One of my favorite types of art is abstract expressionism. This art form is a post World War II movement and started in the late 1940s. It was also known as the most important 20th-century American art movements. Because of the war and the effect it had on the country and its people, these young artists wanted to express their concerns in a new art form of meaning and substance.

In the 50s, a group of artist wrote a letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York expressing their concerns about a survey and the judges taking place at the museum. They thought that the judges would only pick the modern art that they had been familiar with in the early

This name represented their aim to make art that was also expressive or emotional, rather than just pretty. They were inspired by the surrealist idea that art should come from the unconscious mind. (Tate.) This movement has two groups: the action-painters who use expressive strokes with their brushes, and the color field painters who use big areas of one color to fill their canvases. The action painters often use large brushes and swift movements to make their marks on the canvas. This group was led by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Pollock was known for his technique “ drip painting” or “drip and splash” where he would place his canvas on the ground or the against the wall and danced around it while he poured and trailed paint from his brush onto the canvas. The color field painters were led by Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Clyfford Still. This group would use large areas of a single color because they wanted a meditational response from their viewers. This group of people was more interested in myths and religions. In fact, Barnett Newman wrote an essay stating that they were making the art out of themselves and their feelings rather than making cathedrals out of