Willem de Kooning

 Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist: an artistic movement of the mid-20th century comprising diverse styles and techniques and emphasizing especially an artist's liberty to convey attitudes and emotions through nontraditional and usually nonrepresentational means. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962.

There are two types of Abstract Expressionist painters, Action Painters, and Color Field painters.

Abstract Expressionism emerged in a climate of Cold War politics and social and cultural conservatism. World War II had positioned the United States as a global power, and in the years following the conflict, many Americans enjoyed the benefits of unprecedented economic growth.

Abstract Impressionism is an art movement that originated in New York City, in the 1940s. The movement works delicately between the lines of pure abstraction and the allowance of an impression of reality in the painting.

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