The Abstract Expressionist.

Abstract expressionism is the term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940's and 1950's often characterised by gestural brush-strokes or mark marking, and the impression of spontaneity.


Jackson Pollock, was known as the leading force behind the abstract expressionist movement in the art world his radical style of detaching line from colour, redefining the categories of drawing and painting and finding new means to describe pictorial space makes him one of the top influential American painters in the modern art world. From an early age, Pollock was exposed to the Native American culture whilst on surveying trips with his father ( who was a land surveyor for the government). Though he never admitted an intentional imitation or follow of Native American art he did concede that similarities were probably a results of his "early memories and enthusiasms.