Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism is a style of visual art characterized by bold gestures, physicality and spontaneity of process, heroic scale, and the introspection of the artist. The style is most closely associated with a generation of New York painters of the 1940s and 1950s who studied under European modernists (such as Vasily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Max Ernst) who fled to America in the face of fascism.

Prominent abstract expressionists include Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman.rt.