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| Abstract Expressionism |
The Consciously American Style of art which emerged in New York during the 1940s and remained dominant until the late 1950s. It was essentially an amalgam of ideas borrowed from Surrealism (most of whose leaders lived in exile in the US during WWII) and more strictly American concepts about the importance of the pioneering individual, particularly in the liberation of art from tradition. Abstract Expressionism was neither fully Abstract nor wholly Expressionist. It borrowed the Surrealist technique of Automatism and at the same time explored Cubist ideas about 'shallow spaces'. Abstract Expressionism was influential to artists in Latin America, such as Fernando de Szyszlo (Peruvian, 1925) who were working against the influence of formalist works, and the overtly political influence of Indigenismo. |
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