Modern Abstract Art
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<p>Modern abstract art is synonymous with abstract expressionism,
created during the post-World War II era in America, which also made
New York the hub of modern art. The art form, coined by art critic
Robert Coates in 1946, emphasized spontaneous, automatic or
subconscious creation. Through this modern abstract art, an artist
expressed himself with the use of form and color, without representing
any actual object.</p>
<p>Abstract expressionism is considered to be the first American
artistic movement, which gained international importance and was
originally used to describe the work of Willem de Kooning, Jackson
Pollock and Arshile Gorky. Modern abstract art can be divided into two
groups: action painting, pioneered by artists such as Pollock, de
Kooning, Franz Kline and Philip Guston; and the color field painting,
practiced by Mark Rothko and Kenneth Noland. While action painting
stressed the physical action involved in painting, color field painting
is more concerned with exploring the effects of pure color on a canvas.
Although modern abstract art does not follow any conventional art
regulations, abstract expressionist paintings does have some common
characteristics, like the use of large canvases, emphasis on the
canvas?s inherent flatness, and giving equal importance to the entire
area of the canvas.</p>
<p>Although abstract expressionism lost its importance by the 1960s, it
influenced the growth of other modern abstract forms like pop art and
minimalism. Pop art emerged in the late 1950s in the UK and US, based
on the themes of mass culture like advertising and comic books. The art
form, also called neo-dada, was pioneered by Marcel Duchamp. Minimalism
literally means stripping down an art form to its most fundamental
features. In a minimalist painting, an artist uses only a limited
number of colors and employs simple geometric designs. Some notable
minimalist artists include Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, and Martin Puryear
among others.</p>
<p>Modern abstract art is increasingly becoming global, and is trying
to break the cultural barrier that separates high art from the public
forum of the masses.</p>
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