Abstract Expressionism

1960’s

Centre of Western Art world moved from Europe. to the USA after the devastation of WW2

1919

German Magazine Der Stum described non-representational abstract works of German expressionists

1940-60’s

American Art Critic Robert Coates used it to described a group in The New Yorker

1951

Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America exhibition at the MoMA

1935

Federal Art Project - many artists rebelled against the prescriptive agenda to paint murals in Socialist realist style

1936

Rothko employed by the Works Progress Administration

1945

Rothko eld a show at the Art of This Century Gallery, an exhibition run by Peggy Guggenheim

1948

Rothko, Barnett Newman founded Subjects. ofthe Artist School to determine what the proper subject matter should be for a contemporary artist

1958 and 1964

Murals for Four Seasons Restaurant in Seagram building donated to Tate Modern, Harvard Mural series at Smith Centre, 14 canvases. toHouston Texas Chapel

1943

Pollock had his first solo show at Guggenheim’s Art of This Century Gallery

1947

Arrived at drip paintings - fling thinned enamel paint onto an unstretched canvas on the floor