Abstract

Expressionism
 Abstract Expressionism

•synthesis of Europe’s
cubist and surrealist
styles
 Action Painting
• huge canvases spread on the
floor, splattering, squirting, and
dribbling paint with (seemingly)
no pre-planned pattern or
design in mind
 Color Field Painting
• uses different color
saturations (purity,
vividness, intensity) to
create their desired effects
 Pop Art
•paintings, posters,
collages, to three-
dimensional
“assemblages” and
 Pop Art
•inspirations were the
celebrities, advertisements,
billboards, and comic strips
that were becoming
common place at that time
 Conceptual Art
•uses such unusual
materials as grease,
blocks of ice, food,
even just plain dirt.
 Op Art
a form of “action
painting,” with the
action taking place in
the viewer’s eye.