Abstract Expressionism was a post-World War 2 Art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to acchieve worldwide influence and put New York city and the centre of the western art world. Although the term 'Abstract Expressionism' was first applied to Amrican art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm,
The movement's name is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus and synthetic cubism. Additionally, it has an image of being rebellious, anarchic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, nihilistic.
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