Abstract Expressionism

What movement greatly inspired Abstract Expressionists?

• Post-Impressionism
• Expressionism
• Surrealism

In what city did Abstract Expressionism grow up?

• New York
• Paris
• Chicago

What was the leader of modern art prior to New York?

• Chicago
• New York
• Paris

Throughout what years did Abstract Expressionism show major importance?

• 30s and 40s
• 40s and 50s
• 1980s

All of Abstract Expressionist artists were committed to what?

• expressive art and emotion
• non-expressive art and dreams
• Cubist influence over Fauvist

What kind of politics were Abstract Expressionists interested in?

• far-right
• leftist
• moderate

Above all, Abstract Expressionism was a movement of what?

• sculptors
• potters
• painters

Because they were influenced by Surrealists who emigrated to America in the 1930s due to political upheaval in Europe, painting became a struggle between what?

• self expression and chaotic unconsciousness
• stability and appreciation
• chaos and compositional arrangement

Almost all of the artists who would later become Abstract Expressionist painters in New York were stamped by what?

• World War II
• The Great Depression
• World War I

Their art was based on _____________________.

• feelings
• objectivity
• personal expression