This art movement starting coming through in New York City and then flourishing in the fifties.
Americans describe this art movement as the golden age of American Art.
Some of the key figures of the movement were Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. Although their works are very different in terms of style, for example the sprawling pieces of Pollock at one end of the spectrum and the brooding works of Rothko at the other, although they are different in style they all share the same outlook which is one of freedom of individual expression.
The term was originally used to describe the work of Kandinsky but was adopted by writers in the Fifties as a way of defining the American movement, although the practitioners, disliking being pigeon-holed, preferred the term New York School.
Representative Artists:
Jackson Pollock
Willem de Kooning
Franz Kline
Robert Motherwell
Arshile Gorky
Josef Hoffmann
Mark Rothko
Clyfford Still
William Baziotes
Adolph Gottlieb
Barnett Newman
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