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What were the Abstract Expressionists tring to achieve with Abstract Expressionism?
I am doing a presentation on Abstract Expressionism and I have alot of info but I am not really clear on a few things:
What were they trying to achieve? Where they responding or trying to achieve something after WWII?
Did it actually affect the history of art or the ongoing art movements?
If you could help that would be great I am just lacking some ifo because the web sites seem to focus more on the war and how the movement started.
The artists I am focusing on are Pollock, Gottlieb, de Kooning, and Gorky.. 
Well, it’s hard to come up with principles that will apply to all AE artists, because many of them were more different than they were alike.
In general, the idea was to combine sometime intense and spontaneous emotional expressiveness with an exploration of the potential of materials and a rejection of standard figurative art — of traditional representational illusionism. Much pre-war expressionism had maintained its ties to representation to some extent; the abstract expressionists began to reject it. The intention was to be “different” and revolutionary — avant-garde, exploratory, forward-looking, even rebellious and shocking, in the sense that the works of an artist like Pollock seemed to some people to be (but weren’t) nothing more than the careless flinging of paint against a surface.
Yes, the AE artists were extraordinarily influential and they still are. By the way, a book that satirizes the whole art scene but also helps to some extent to explain it is Tom Wolfe’s “The Painted Word,” published years ago but still worth reading. You might also take a look at the criticism of Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg to get a sense of how the art was understodo at the time.
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