Abstract Expressionism originated during the 1940’s in New York making it a Post-World War II movement. Though it incorporated many art styles such as photography and sculpture, the movement was above all led and remembered for its painters Jackson Pollock and William De Kooing.
Abstract Expressionism painters explored various ways of painting and expressing themselves on canvas by using previously unused painting techniques and art making tools in the hopes that it would allow them to find freedom through their work.
When the art movement was at it’s peak from the 1940’s to the 1950’s World War II was occurring and that led to quite a lot of Europeans travelling to America and suddenly American artists were exposed to a lot more surrealism
Abstract Expressionism painters explored various ways of painting and expressing themselves on canvas by using previously unused painting techniques and art making tools in the hopes that it would allow them to find freedom through their work.
When the art movement was at it’s peak from the 1940’s to the 1950’s World War II was occurring and that led to quite a lot of Europeans travelling to America and suddenly American artists were exposed to a lot more surrealism