Abstract Expressionism is an art movement.
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s.
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.” — Jackson Pollock.
Art movement.
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years, or decades).
The term Abstract Expressionism involves a wide variety of American 20th-century art movements in abstract art.
Also known as The New York School, this movement includes large painted canvases, sculptures, and other media as well.
It was the first genuinely American movement to get international influence and put New York at the center of the art world, which was occupied by Paris.
It had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regarding German Expressionism.
In the United States, Alfred Barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky.
