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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM• It is a post-World War II art movement

in American painting, that is developed in New York City in 1940

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM• It was the first specifically American

movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM• The term "Abstract Expressionism"

was first used in Germany in connection with Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky in 1919

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM• Abstract expressionism has many

stylistic similarities to the Russian artists of the early 20th century

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM•  It was somehow meant to encompass not

only the work of painters who filled their canvases with fields of color and abstract forms, but also those who attacked their canvases with a vigorous gestural expressionism. 

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM• Political instability in Europe in the 1930s

brought several leading Surrealists to New York, and many of the Abstract Expressionists were profoundly influenced by the style and by its focus on the unconscious

CHARACTERISTICS OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM•Messiness• Sometimes “gestural writing” in a

loosely calligraphic manner•Unconventional application of paint,

usually without a recognizable subject

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM• Herbert Ferber • April 30, 1906 – August 20, 1991• Ferber's best-known sculptures are open,

hollow forms in soldered and welded metal. While abstract, their titles and spiky forms often suggest forces in conflict.

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM•Mark Tobey•December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976•His densely structured compositions,

inspired by Asian calligraphy, resemble Abstract expressionism.

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