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

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

The essentials achievement of painters and sculptors, may be

found its roots in him. Artists went off in individual directions and developed

the artists involved, two main tendencies may be noted. The first is that of

t matter. Expressive meaning stressing emotions and individual

Willem De Kooning was born in Rotterdam Holland, in 1904, and

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

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