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1940 and 1950 Abstract Expressionism it was not only developed to allow painters who filled their canvases with colour and abstract forms, but to allow painters to attack their canvases with vigorous gestural expressionism.  When artists did expressionism art they painted expressions of the self, influenced by the art movement surrealism because of mining the unconscious. The purpose of Abstract expressionism is the understanding of painting itself as a struggle between self-expressionism and the chaos of the subconscious. (Abstract Expressionism Movement, Artists And Major Works). A non-representative art movement. Leading abstract painters Jackson Pollock (1912-56), his wife Lee Krasner (1908-84), Franz Kline(1910-62), Robert Motherwell (1915-91), Willem De Kooning (1904-97), Mark Rothko (1903-70), Clyfford Still (1904-80), Barnett Newman (1905-70), Josef Albers (1888-1976), Philip Guston (1913-80), Adolph Gottlieb(1903-74), and William Baziotes (1912-63). Second gener

Began in the mid-1950s and ended approximately in the early 1970s. Pop art is an art movement invented by a British curator Lawrence Alloway, in 1955, pop art is a shorter way of saying “popular art”. This art movement was characterized by the imagery of consumerism and popular culture. Pop Art emerged in both New York and London during the mid-1950s. The movement was characterized by bold, simple everyday imagery and vibrant block colours, it was very interesting to look at and had a vibrant feel. The bright colour scheme that is used in Pop Art was to enable the formation of the avant-garde to emphasize certain elements of contemporary culture, and this helped to narrow the division between the commercial arts and the fine arts. Pop Art was the first Post-Modernist movement (where the medium is as important as the message), as well as the first school of art to reflect the power of film and television. Pop Art was seen/advertised in consumer product packaging, photos o