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Tuesday 13 January 2015

Abstract Expressionism

Abstract expressionism
This art movement has been to the artists who painted between 1940s and 1950s. This movement became commonly associated before ww2 and was the first major art movement in american. It was influenced by surrealism and cubism and a development of abstract art. 
The art is almost automatic painting as there is no or minimal figurative painting or anything the resembles something else. It is all about displacement.

There are many artists involved in this art movement;
Arshile Gorky 1904-1948
Jackson Pollock 1912-1956 
Willem De Kooning 1904-1997Robert Motherwell 1915-1991
Franz Kline 1910-1962
Mark Rothko 1903-1970
Hans Hifman 1880-1996
Barnett Newman 1905-1970
Clyfford Still 1904-1980


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