Abstract Expressionism is a modern art movement
that flowered in America after the Second World War and held sway until the
dawn of Pop Art in the 1960's. With this movement New York replaced Paris as
the center of the art world.
Abstract Expressionism has its roots in other
earlier 20th century art movements such as Cubism and Surrealism that promoted
abstraction rather than representation. The psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund
Freud and Carl Jung provided the intellectual context in this quest for new
subject matter.
The major players in Abstract Expression were
Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline,
Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Philip Guston, Lee Krasner, Ad
Reinhardt and sculptor David Smith.
The Abstract Expressionists goal was a raw and
impulsive art. What mattered were the qualities of the paint itself and the act
of painting itself.
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| Jackson Pollock: 'Number 8' (1949), Neuberger Museum, State University of New York |
Marc Rothko: 'Untitled' (violet, black, orange, yellow over white and red), Guggenheim Museum New York City
Author: www.biddingtons.com (copied by Silvia Martín Martínez)
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