Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red, 1949, Color Field Painting, Mark Rothko Expressionist artists started emerging after World War II, their work was often large scale paintings that lacked a clear focal point as well as showed visible signs of the artists working process. The subject of their work was mostly non-objective imagery but in some cases related to the collective human experience. Not always will all the characteristics of expressionist work exist in the same piece at the same time. The unique representation of process in different artists' work, lead to artistic theories that individual actions give meaning and the creative process was more important than the artwork itself. Often these individual actions where expressed as gesture marks, or brush strokes. Abstract expressionism found inspiration in the collective human experience, and philosophy. Artists like Mark Rothko created meditative paintings. His blocks of horizont...