Abstract Expressionism

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or more colored
geometric shapes on a white field. He visualized a state of feeling, and a
sense of bliss and wonder. Mondrian took a different approach with tighter
geometric orientation and stricter compositional order. He was also
inspired by landscape but he interpreted it as a series of interlocking
vertical and horizontal lines.
It would be hard to advance any definition of abstract expressionism
without taking into account the vast and varied cultural and historical
happenings that led to its birth. This artistic movement evolved over a
long time. As we look closely at any of the members of the generation
identified with abstract expressionism, their biographies reveal the whole
experience of this artistic adventure. It was an odd reaction of the new
America from the old Europe. For more than half a century, the general
European public had been bombarded of a variety of art exercises. But new
wave of artists in Europe and United States saw in change in its future. ...

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to realize in the late
forties and early fifties went far beyond the possibilities that were
opened up by recent influences. The artists ranged from thirty to forty-two
years old then and were coming into the mature periods of their lives and
were expressing the maturity of the art. The economic and cultural
circumstances in the United States conditioned and defined their art- the
crash of 1929, the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, the American
stance of neutrality towards World War II until December 1940.
The term "Abstract Expressionism" is misleading. On its first
appearance, it seemed like any genuine innovative style, breaking away with
the past in a radical manner. By ...

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