Abstract Expressionism: 1945-1960
Characteristics:
- emphasis on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation
- has an image of being rebellious, anarhic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, rather nihilistic
- implies expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, the unconscious and the mind
Artists of the Era
Wassily Kandinsky:
The White Dot
1923
Picture With an Archer
1909
Willem de Kooning:
Woman IV
1953
An Abstract Painting
1949
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