scale works and expression of feelings through slashing and active brush

strokes. It exploded in New York, following World War II. The war brought

on victory of abstract and expressionistic art and the creation of the first

major original direction in the history of American art. This movement lasted

about fifteen years. This form of art was not so much a style as an idea.

Abstract expressionists were diverse individuals who had little in common,

except what they were against. Based on the freedom of individual

expression, this art form got its title because, it was abstract and expression.

Abstract meaning emphasizing shape, colour and line with no recognizable

these curvilinear shapes, still with organic or biomorphic suggestions, were

and their students, were the instigators of abstract expressionism. Although

to a form of figure painting, but executed with a delicacy transcending any he

portraitist until 1940. When he began painting abstractions, the shapes were

painters, concerned with the statement of an abstract sign or image in terms of

presented with a counterpoint of jagged brittle lines that heightened the

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