Abstract Expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement.

Action painting, created by Jackson Pollock, is a style in which paint is spontaneously splattered, smeared or dripped onto the canvas.

Color Field painting can be recognized by its large fields of solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.

The New York School was an informal group of American abstract painters and other artists active in the 1950s and 1960s.

During the postwar period, many sculptors made work in the prevalent styles of the time: Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Pop Art.