post-abstract expressionists (Pearlstein, Rivers, and Hartigan, for example), style or technique became a subject. The movement comprised many styles varying in both technique and quality of expression. Artists include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler. The characteristics of abstract expressionism (the large-scale painting which becomes an "environment," the all-over composition, suggestions of automatism, the gestural expressiveness) were The Art Story Movements Post-painterly Abstraction is a broad term for a variety of styles that were a reaction to the painterly, gestural approaches of Abstract Expressionists. Post-Abstract Expressionism All the above individual styles emerged out of the dominant school of abstract expressionist painting during the late 1950s, early 1960s, and in some ways reacted against it - or at least were precipitated by it.
He exploits it in the interest of rejecting abstract expressionism, rejecting its metaphors of the unconscious and transcendence, and finally, he exploits it as a rejection of existentialism. 2 ... but he exploits it nonetheless. Still Abstract Expressionism has become the most accepted term for a group of artists who held much in common. Abstraction and the Figure in the Second Half of the 20th century, pt.
Abstract Expressionism, broad movement in American painting that became a dominant trend in Western painting during the 1950s.