Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism is a term applied to American painting movement prospering in New York City after World War II, also called New York School, more strictly called action painting. The various kinds of work done by abstract expressionists resists the definition of a coherent style; instead these artists use abstraction to express strong emotions and expressive content I am interested in.

Abstract expressionism is known for large pictures separated from traditional processes. It is often to remove the canvas from easel and use exceptional materials like house paint. Abstract expressionism is often considered an improvement of painting, but the idea resonates deeply with many media including paintings and sculptures.

Abstract expressionism appears in the politics of the Cold War and the atmosphere of social and cultural conservatism. World War II positions the United States as a major power of the world, and in the years after conflict, many Americans enjoyed the benefits of unprecedented economic growth. By the mid-1950's, however, the spirit of optimism evolved into a powerful force and a paranoia hybrid. Fearing the Communist Party's penetration, Senator Wisconsin Joseph McCarthy launched a series of "hunting witches" against so-called communist sympathizers. If the hint is destroyed, people may become suspicious. A civilian is ironic but not contradictory. In political oppression it is as serious as America. Abstract expressionism is a free expression for many people. Freedom to create controversial artworks, freedom symbolized by action painting, and unbound expressiveism by artists who are not completely bound. "1

Abstract expressionism regards the beginning of the influence of New York as the center of the Western art world. The world of abstract expressionist artists is rooted in Lower Manhattan. After passing through Hans Hoffmann Art School founded by a painter of the same name, walking on 8th Avenue, artists without penis make "Tomato Soup" with free hot water and ketchup. For the club, this is a loft that lasts late into the night, a lecture, and a fierce art controversy. Jackson Pollock's studio is in East 10th East 8th Street, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, but Franz Kline goes back and forth between the home and the studio in this area, but I found it on Cedar Street Tavern University the most in the evening. Many of his contemporaries people

Color field, trend of abstract expressionism. Abstract expressionism appeared in New York in the early 1940's. The 1940s was when America joined the Second World War. This is "robbing more than 2,400 lives" and that "over 1000 people" were injured after being attacked by "Pearl Harbor." Artists want to express the emotions of American citizens as a response to casualties of those days. Some of the names borrowed by fame are as follows. MarkRothko, Barett Newman, Clyfford Still.

In the late 1960s, Abstract Expressionist painter Philip Guston led the transition from abstract expressionism to new expressionism in painting, abandoning the so-called "pure abstraction" of abstract expressionism. Supports more cartoon effects of various personal symbols and objects. These works inspired the new generation of painters who are interested in resurrecting the image. As shown above, his painting "Painting, Smoking, Diet 1973" is an example of Guston's last and last regression.

Action painting is a prosperous style from the 1940s to the early 1960s, and it is closely related to abstract expressionism (some critics use the term action painting and abstract expressionism in the same sense doing). American action painting and French speed painting are often compared. This term was built by American critic Harold Rosenberg in 1952 and showed a big change in the aesthetic view of the New York school and critics. According to Rosenberg, the canvas is "a stage where action can take place". Abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Klein, William De Kooning have been vaguely convinced that the picture is a stage of integration with creative behavior for a long time, but early critics have come up with the cause I sympathized with, for example, Clement Greenberg focused on the "objectivity" of their work.