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
installations.
 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.