Abstract Expression
A painting movement in
which artists typically applied paint
rapidly, and with force to their huge canvases in
an effort to show feelings and emotions, painting by gesture,
non-geometrically,
sometimes applying paint with large brushes, sometimes dripping or even
throwing it onto canvas. Their work is characterized by a strong dependence on
what appears to be accident and chance, but which is actually highly planned. Some
Abstract Expressionist artists were concerned with adopting a peaceful and
mystical approach to a purely abstract image.
Usually there was no effort to represent subject matter.
Not all work was abstract, nor was all work expressive,
but it was generally believed that the spontaneity of
the artists' approach to their work would draw from and release the creativity of
their unconscious minds.
The expressive method
of painting was often considered as important as the painting itself. They were linked by a concern with varying degrees of abstraction used to
convey strong emotional or expressive content. Abstract Expressionism
has nonetheless been interpreted as an especially ‘American’ style because of
its attention to the physical immediacy of paint; it has also been seen as a
continuation of the Romantic tradition of the Sublime. It undeniably became the
first American visual art to attain international status and influence.
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