Тема: Abstract Expressionism

...was first used by the English critic Lawrence Alloway in a 1958 issue of Architectural Digest to describe those paintings that celebrate post-war consumerism, defy the psychology of Abstract Expressionism , and worship the god of materialism.

Abstract Expressionism , of the 1950s represented primarily of American artist such as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning and others. some of whom took part in figurative expressionism .

The most prominent American artistic style to follow abstract expressionism was the pop art movement that began in the 1950s.

Turner was fond of painting the pure movement of masses of colour - a kind of colour music, strikingly relevant to Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s.

Der Blaue Reiter was to become the high point of German Expressionism , but it also opened the way towards abstraction with its stand for free...
...the abstract . Together they create a forest of experience through which we can see, as if emerging...

Artists leaving war-torn Europe brought the remnants of surrealism to the Big Apple, inspiring a group of young American painters to create the first distinct American painting style, abstract expressionism .