La fin de la guerre 1939-1945 a vu la création d’un courant pictural typiquement américain. Il a bien entendu bénéficié de l’arrivée des artistes européens qui avaient fuit le régime nazi.
Ce mouvement pictural entend se démarquer du réalisme américain et du régionalisme, qui s’étaient imposés après la grande dépression, des années 30. Il avait été soutenu par le Federal Art Project mis en place par la Work Projects Administration , dans le cadre du New Deal. Ce plan d’envergure a aidé les artistes sans ressources Ce sont alors inconnus, mais ils s’illustreront par la suite dans l’expressionnisme abstrait.
Parmi eux il y avait Arshile Gorky = Adolph Gottlieb = Jackson Pollock = Willem de Kooning = Lee Krasner =Mark Rothko, Philip Guston ou Stuart Davis. Ils se rattachent à la New York School (*)
Parmi les artistes du mouvement de l’expressionnisme abstrait l’on peut citer :
Albert Alcalay = Charles Alston = = Ruth Asawa = Alice Baber = William Baziotes =Forrest Bess =Norman Bluhm = Louise Bourgeois = Ernest Briggs = James Brooks = Fritz Bultman = Hans Burkhardt = Jack Bush =Peter Busa=John Cage = Lawrence Calcagno = Alexander Calder = Nicolas Carone = Giorgio Cavallon = John Chamberlain =Edward Corbett = Joseph Cornell = Dorothy Dehner =Friedel Dzubas= Jean Dubuffet =Elaine de Kooning = Willem de Kooning = Beauford Delaney = Robert De Niro Sr =Richard Diebenkorn = Mark di Suvero = James Budd Dixon = Enrico Donati = Edward Dugmore = Friedel Dzubas .
Jimmy Ernst = Herbert Ferber = John Ferren =Perle Fine = = Jane Frank =Helen Frankenthaler = Sonia Gechtoff = Michael Goldberg = Robert Goodnough = Arshile Gorky = Joseph Goto =Adolph Gottlieb =Morris Graves = Gris Cleve = Philip Guston = Raoul Hague = David Hare = Grace Hartigan = Hans Hofmann = Paul Horiuchi = John Hultberg = Paul Jenkins = James Kelly =Earl Kerkam =Franz Kline = Albert Kotin = Lee Krasner = Walter Kuhlma =Ibram Lassaw = Alfred Leslie = John Harrison Levee = Norman Lewi = Richard Lippold = Seymour Lipton = Frank Lobdell = Morris Louis =Conrad Marca-Relli = Nicolas Marsicano = MercedesMatter =Joan Mitchell =Robert Motherwell = Louise Nevelson = Barnett Newman = Isamu Noguchi = John Opper
Stephen Pace = Charlotte Park =Ray Parker = Phillip Pavia = Jackson Pollock == Betty Parsons= Fuller Potter = Richard Warren Pousette-Dart = Ad Reinhardt = Milton Resnick = Robert Richenburg =George Rickey =Jean-Paul Riopelle =William Ronald =James Rosati =Ralph Rosenborg = Theodore Roszak =Mark Rothko = Anne Ryan = Louis Schanker =Jon Schueler =Charles Seliger =Harold Shapinsky =Thomas Sills = avid Smith = Theodoros Stamos =Richard Stankiewicz =Hedda Sterne =Joe Stefanelli = Hedda Sterne = Clyfford Still = George Stillman = Reuben Tam =Alma Thomas = Mark Tobey = Bradley Walker Tomlin = Cy Twombly = Jack Tworkov = Esteban Vicente = Peter Voulkos = Corinne Michelle West =John von Wicht =Ulfert Wilke= Hale Woodruff =Emerson Woelffer =Taro Yamamoto =Manoucher Yektai.
Et aussi des artistes de la seconde génération, dont notamment : Olga Albizu = John Altoon=Lee Bontecou (*) = Hannelore Baron =Elmer Bischoff= Rochelle Blumenfeld =Stanley Boxer= Gandy Brodie = Dan Christensen =Edward Clark (*) =Jay DeFeo =Audrey Flack = Sam Gilliam ==Al Held =Marcia Hafif (*) =Wolf Kahn= Ronnie Landfield =Brice Marden = Stephen Mueller- = Hassel Smith = Jules Olitski = Larry Rivers =Richards Ruben =Joan Snyder= Walasse Ting =Leo Valledor = Larry Zox
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