2. American art movement that became popular after WWII Has it’s roots in Surrealism Connections to Jazz and music (improvisation) Existential ideas that emphasized CREATION and PROCESS…

3. ABSTRACT: art that does not attempt to represent external, recognizable reality but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures. EXPRESSIONISM: style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world. *Not all artists that fall within the abstract expressionist movement were purely abstract or purely expressionist in their work.

4. Line Shape Space Value Color Texture Unity Movement Balance Rhythm Contrast Emphasis Pattern

6. Jackson Pollock…

9. Color Field artists were concerned about subjectlessness and bringing out a deep emotional response of the viewer. They were for flat forms.

10. Abstract Painting More Speed Painting!