JAV120H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Flavin Group, Documenta, Impermanence
1 Apr 2017
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Abstract expressionism began in mid 1940s, end of ww2. After the war, europe was in ruins, america"s entry to the war was one of the keys to the ally victory, america was newly confident and beginning to prosper once more after the end of the. Great depression that lasted throughout the 1930s until the war began. Abstract expressionism was the first important art movement in america to declare its style from the independence from european style and to intern exert influence on art internationally. The movement was centered in new york, originally called the new york school. Robert coates coined the term abstract expressionism" in 1946 in a magazine. Abstract expressionism is the movement that was created by a critique, the influential critique. The abstract expressionism is not a reference to something else, it is itself. Modrian left paris and to new york in 1938.
