New York School
Originally
a term synonymus with Abstract Expressionism, the New York School is
used more generally now to signify the Western art world's shift -
both physically and conceptually - to New York City in the years
after World War II and continuing through the 1960s.
The term originated with a 1965 Los Angeles County Museum of Art
exhibition, 'The New York School: The First Generation Painting of
the 1940s and 1950s,' which featured the work of Willem de Kooning,
Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko,
among others.
Paintings by the first generation of New York School artists were
large and abstract, and emphasized bold, aggressive brushstrokes;
critic Harold Rosenberg coined the phrase 'action painting' to
describe these works. Subjective and highly gestural, they addressed
the theme of human impulse and desires, in addition to commenting on
society's need to impose order on such expression and to define and
control taboos through myth.
the statement of 'the new
york school'
Representative
painters:
Baziotes,
de
Kooning,
S.Francis,
Frankenthaler,
Gorky,
Gottlieb,
Guston,
Kline,
Krasner,
Mitchell,
Motherwell,
Newman,
Pollock,
Rauschenberg,
Reinhardt,
Rothko,
D.Smith,
Still