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US movement in abstract art that emphasized
the act of painting, the expression inherent
in paint itself, and the interaction of
artist, paint, and canvas. Abstract
Expressionism emerged in New York in the
early 1940s. Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline,
Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko are
associated with the movement. Abstract
Expressionism may have been inspired by Hans
Hofmann and Gorky, who were both working in
the USA in the 1940s. Hofmann, who emigrated
from Germany in the 1930s, had started to use
dribbles and blobs of paint to create
expressive abstract patterns, while Gorky, a
Turkish Armenian refugee, was developing his
highly coloured abstracts with wild organic
forms. Abstract Expressionism was not a
distinct school but rather a convergence of
artistic personalities, each revolting
against restricting conventions in US art.
The styles of the movement's exponents varied
widely: Pollock's huge dripped and splashed
work, Willem de Kooning's grotesque figures,
Kline's strong calligraphic style, and Robert
Motherwell and Rothko's calmer large abstract
canvases.
Subject by: Russell Webb