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	Abstract expressionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the first truly original school of painting in America, abstract expressionism demonstrated the vitality and creativity of the country in the post-war years, as well as its need (or ability) to develop an aesthetic sense that was not constrained by the European standards of beauty.
		They saw it as a means of promoting the idea that the USA was a haven of free thought and free markets, and also as a means of challenging both the socialist realist styles prevalent in communist nations, and the dominance of the European art markets.
		Articles on two leading abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston, by American artist Dorothy Koppelman, relating their art to their lives from the Aesthetic Realism point of view, can be seen on the Terrain Gallery Web site.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abstract_expressionism (514 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Modern Art
		Abstract expressionists emphasized the process of painting, by allowing evidence of the artist’s gestures to remain visible on the canvas surface.
		In addition to surrealism, the abstract expressionists were influenced by Kandinsky’s ideas about similarities between abstract art and music and the ability of abstraction to communicate meaning and emotional content.
		Although abstract expressionism had become widely identified with art in the United States from the 1940s on, in the late 1950s American artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns wanted to reopen the dialogue between art and ordinary objects, which the dada movement had begun.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761568672___68/Modern_Art.html (3331 words)

	University of Kentucky Art Museum - COLLECTIONS
		Abstract Expressionists were abstract artists because they had been schooled in early modern painting; they were expressionist artists because of their fervent belief in the individual gesture and in the freedom to use any means, including the human figure itself, to convey their intent.
		Abstract Expressionists synthesized numerous sources from the history of modern painting, including the expressionism of van Gogh, the abstraction of Kandinsky, the saturated colors of Matisse, and the fascination with the unconscious of the surrealists.
		Unlike most Abstract Expressionists, however, Mitchell resisted the notion that painting is a matter of instinct, asserting instead that painting is a willed act rather than the result of chance effect.
	www.uky.edu /ArtMuseum/collections_abstract.html#dzubas (957 words)

	Abstract expressionism, the art of the inner self
		Before, artists, abstract or not, had rather more universal aims which were directed at the outer world, that is, the public and society in general, such as doctrines and philosophies designed to fill the spiritual void left behind by secularization (i.e.
		At first the abstract expressionist saw himself as the undervalued genius (which in the American culture translates into heroism), persevering his lonely struggle for the development of art, for the greater good of all humanity.
		Perhaps this lack of insight explains why abstract expressionism may be seen as an art form without masterpieces, nevertheless abstract expressionism has been of tremendous importance to the pictorial vocabulary of the artists that have succeeded it.
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	Abstract art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses shapes and colours in a non-representational or subjective way.
		In the very early 20th century, the term was more often used to describe art, such as Cubist and Futurist art, that does represent the natural world, but does so by capturing something of its immutable intrinsic qualities rather than by imitating its external appearance.
		However, the idea that the arrangement of shapes and colours is not simply to be understood as design, but as fine art dates from the nineteenth century when photography began to make the illustrative function of visual art obsolete.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abstract_art (455 words)

	abstract expressionism on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Jackson Pollock 's turbulent yet elegant abstract paintings, which were created by spattering paint on huge canvases placed on the floor, brought abstract expressionism before a hostile public.
		His intensely complicated abstract paintings of the 1940s were followed by images of Woman, grotesque versions of buxom womanhood, which were virtually unparalleled in the sustained savagery of their execution.
		Painters such as Philip Guston and Franz Kline turned to the abstract late in the 1940s and soon developed strikingly original styles—the former, lyrical and evocative, the latter, forceful and boldly dramatic.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a1/abstrexp.asp (555 words)

	Artist Profile: The Life and Work of Painter Helen Frankenthaler
		Although her work is abstract, the images are often taken from remembered or imagined landscapes - sort-of personalized landscapes, concerned greatly with the fluidity of the paint and the image.
		Like other Abstract Expressionists, such as Arshile Gorky, her work was less concerned with the appearance of nature than with actual natural processes, such as the flow of liquids or the organic growth process itself.
		This existential approach was one of the characteristics of the Abstract Expressionist movement, with its emphasis on the expressive purpose of the individual artist.
	www.ndoylefineart.com /frankenthaler.html (2398 words)

	Abstract Expressionism Art - Artists, Artworks and Biographies
		Abstract Expressionists wished to emphasize the accident and chance in their work, but often highly planned their execution.
		Abstract Expressionists saw painting as a pure expression of emotion and means of visual communication.
		Not all Abstract Expressionist work was abstract and expressive, although the movement is united in its spontaneous release of unconscious creativity.
	www.wwar.com /masters/movements/abstract_expressionism.html (510 words)

	Abstract: Learn About Art and the Abstract art movement
		Abstract Expressionism was an art movement that took place in the United States from 1946 to the 1960's.
		Abstract Expressionism is a form of art in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color.
		Abstract Expressionism had a huge impact on the art community, and their influence is seen in the movements that followed.
	www.respree.com /scstore/learn/abstract.html (182 words)

	Robert Motherwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an Abstract Expressionist painter.
		As an abstract expressionist, his greatest goal was to use the staging of his work to convey to the viewer, the mental and physical engagement of the artist with the canvas.
		It seemed, however, for many of the Abstract Expressionists that the newly found appreciation could not counteract the turbulence of those early years—many dying young or taking their own lives.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Robert_Motherwell (406 words)

	Abstract Expressionists and the Trotskyist movement (by L. Proyect)
		Abstract Expressionists and the Trotskyist movement (by L. Proyect)
		He began to promote the abstract expressionists both as apostles of internationalism, and--interestingly--at the same time as proponents of a new American culture.
		To begin with, it is necessary to understand that the abstract expressionists were promoted as a symbol of the vigor and creativity of American capitalism.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/guilbaut.htm (2320 words)

	Guggenheim Museum - Selections from the Permanent Collection - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The New York School (as Abstract Expressionists were also known) and their immediate successors revolutionized the subject matter and materiality of art, each in distinct ways.
		Many first-generation Abstract Expressionists conveyed a strong sense of the physical gesture of painting and were thus referred to as Action painters.
		Other Abstract Expressionists abandoned the obvious traces of brushstroke and gesture to impart large swathes or fields of color onto the canvas and were known as Color-field painters.
	www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/perm_coll/americanart.html (449 words)

	Abstract art paintings by unknown and famous artists
		Abstract paintings that resemble abstract wallpaper in the eyes of those that don't appreciate action painting, as well as paintings that consist of red, yellow and blue rectangles by Piet Mondrian still give rise to controversy in abstract art.
		Looking at the post-WW II period, in which abstract art in America was gaining momentum, one may get the impression that American abstract art has been decorative, rather than intellectual, with the emphasis in the paintings of abstract expressionism being on the creative process itself.
		As abstract expressionists felt limited by the abstract-geometric and cubistic bounds, abstract paintings began to gain expression and at the same time "lose shape".
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	Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s
		Moreover, while the artists subsequently labeled Abstract Expressionists frequently resisted categorization and often stressed the philosophical and formal distinctions among themselves, there is nevertheless a consensus among scholars that Abstract Expressionism was a cohesive intellectual and artistic experience.
		Although by the early 1950s most of the Abstract Expressionists had developed their signature styles, Harold Rosenberg's December 1952 essay "The Action Painters," in Art News, nevertheless dispensed additional credibility, for it provided the artists and their patrons the verbal framework with which to articulate the philosophical underpinnings and significance of this new style.
		While the remaining Abstract Expressionists continued to paint, exhibit frequently, and receive favorable critical attention (not to mention increasing prices for their work), in retrospect it is apparent that by the mid-to-late 1950s, their aesthetic leadership, albeit not their public popularity, was on the wane.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/rebels/painters.htm (1992 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Action men
		It was once the unofficial club of some of the greatest painters of the 20th century, the abstract expressionists.
		This abstract expressionist behemoth is a caricature of some of the most sensitive, unaggressive paintings that exist.
		And that is because abstract expressionism is rooted in the political art of the Depression.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,789869,00.html (1838 words)

	Art In The City - Mystic Landscapes/Abstract Expressionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Abstract Expressionism is the name given to a group of American artists who gained international attention in the 1950s.
		The result of this boost to American art was the post-war international dominance of the Abstract Expressionists, and the movement of the centre of the art world from Europe to New York.
		One of the important developments associated with the colour field Abstract Expressionists is the creation of a 20th century sublime.
	www.lopdell.org.nz /Online/aic/abstract_ex.htm (221 words)

	Abstract Art Paintings
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	Abstract expressionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The books by Frances Stonor Saunders (The Cultural Cold War - The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters) details how the CIA went about financing and organising the promotion of American abstract expressionists, via the Congress for Cultural Freedom from 1950-1967.
		Articles on two leading abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock (http://www.terraingallery.org/Jackson-Pollock-Ambition-DK.html) and Philip Guston (http://www.aestheticrealism.org/Philip_Guston/Philip_Guston.html), by American artist Dorothy Koppelman, relating their art to their lives from the Aesthetic Realism point of view, can be seen on the Terrain Gallery (http://www.terraingallery.org/Art-Talks-Archive.html) Web site.
		However, many painters, such as Fuller Potter [1] (http://www.best-of-fuller-potter-paintings.com), who had produced abstract expressionist work continued to work in that style for many years afterwards extending and expanding its.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Abstract_expressionism (543 words)

	The Abstract Expressionists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Abstract Expressionism was a term first used in 1936 by Robert Coates in the March issue of the New Yorker.
		However, the first public exhibitions of the Abstract Expressionist works were held in the mid 1940's.
		Modern art, including Abstract Expressionism, was generally a reaction against the stressful conditions of life in the twentieth century: war, the breakdown of social and religious traditions, the disruption of ethics and values caused by too rapid a change beyond the ability of humans to cope.
	student.santarosa.edu /~rgreene/Art%2054/Art%2054%20Assignment%204%20Adolph%20Gottlieb.htm (1385 words)

	Abstract Expressionism
		The movement of abstract expressionism originating in the middle of the twentieth century was an approach to modernism/ post-modernism accentuating the uninhibited expression of emotions.
		The painters who came to be called ``Abstract Expressionists'' shared a similarity of outlook rather than of style-- an outlook characterized by a spirit of revolt and a belief in freedom of expression.
		By the mid 1940s he was painting in a completely abstract manner, and the `drip and splash' style for which he is best known emerged with some abruptness in 1947.
	www.olinda.com /Art/Abstract_expressionism/aexpressionism.htm (1308 words)

	Abstract Expressionism \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The crisis of war and its aftermath are key to understanding the concerns of the Abstract Expressionists.
		For Abstract Expressionists, the authenticity or value of a work lay in its directness and immediacy of expression.
		In the wake of Abstract Expressionism, new generations of artists—both American and European—were profoundly marked by the breakthroughs made by the first generation, and went on to create their own important expressions based on, but not imitative of, those who forged the way.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/abex/hd_abex.htm (1233 words)

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	Art Business News: Made in America: Abstract Expressionist Prints Reemerge - art industry information
		Abstract Expressionism was the first avant-garde art movement born in the United States, and paintings from the era fetch millions of dollars.
		Now, Abstract Expressionist prints are enjoying an upsurge of interest, spurred by a traveling museum show and by hip, young collectors furthering their love affairs with all things mid-century and modern.
		"Abstract Expressionism is acknowledged as the leading achievement of American art in the 20th century, but its impact on the graphic arts has never fully been examined," said David Acton, organizer of the exhibit and curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the Worcester Art Museum.
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