American Abstract Expressionism Painting Style

To reveal and define abstract expressionism style in painting is quite trouble-free – this style joins all the painters that prefer to express their feelings by means of rapid creation of painting. To express the feelings and emotions abstract expressionism artists use large brushes and canvases, the paint is often thrown onto canvas and also objects and forms do not have importance for abstract expressionism. The goal of the style is to express energy, spontaneity, creativity. All the forms and objects created on canvases are the allusions, figurative reality is replaced by a purely abstract image.

It was New York were the movement emerged in the yearly 1940s. American abstract expressionism was significant movement in the history of American art. In addition to the movement development «The New York School» created completely new direction in art, made a lot of talented artists of that time well-known, and left a number pieces of art highly praised worldwide.

American abstract expressionism style valued dynamic, gesture, images depicted in highly abstract mode. Abstract expressionism style also introduced such way of painting as pouring of paint onto canvas laid on the ground. The final result of such painting technique might be shocking to the viewers, the painters avoided stretcher bars and easels, huge canvases were used. The painting was created dynamically, moreover, it was crucial that the painting was able to express immediacy and directness. Due to such above-mentioned features abstract expressionism style became also known as «action painting». American abstract expressionism depicted nonobjective, it was more important to express action, event rather than a picture.

It was typical to abstract expressionism style to depict action attaching importance to colours, while the format of canvases was the same, huge. This was the reason, partly, why the paintings could be be seen in relatively close environments. One of the main achievements of American abstract expressionism was the shift of art world's focus from Paris to New York. The breakthrough that the movement managed to realize between 1943 and the mid-'50s was used by later generations. And today we can see the results of their work, new artworks of abstract expressionism style have appeared, new abstract expressionism galleries exhibit newly created pieces of art and viewing these works it is possible to see the characteristic features of one of the main painting art styles of XX th century.

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