1. Abstract Expressionism 1946 – 1960

2. What is Abstract Expressionism?

3. 1940-1960

4. "To us, art is an adventure into an unknown world of the imagination which is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing. We assert that the subject is critical." - New York Times (June 1943), Gottlieb, Rothko, and Newman

6. Abstract Expressionism is… Spontaneous

7. Number 28, 1950, Jackson Pollock

8. Jackson Pollack Drip and Pour

9. Abstract Expressionism is… The Inner Psyche

10. Woman, 1950Willem de Kooning

11. Abstract Expressionism is… Unconventional

12. Adolph GottliebPink Ground, 1972

13. Abstract Expressionism is… informal

14. No. 13 (White, Red, on Yellow), 1958Mark Rothko Rothko said, "I paint big to be intimate." The notion is toward the personal (authentic expression of the individual) rather than the grandiose.

15. Abstract Expressionism is… Energetic Gesture

16. Black Reflections, 1959Franz Kline

17. Now it’s your turn!

18. The Artists

20. Citations http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abex/hd_abex.htm (Accessed 27 March 2010).