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| Note created | Feb 13, 2026 |
An avant-garde movement that emerged in New York City in the 1940s, emphasizing spontaneous, gestural, and non-representational painting. Key figures include Jackson Pollock, whose One: Number 31 epitomizes the movement’s radical drip technique, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, whose luminous color field canvases shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York City. The movement responded to Surrealism’s embrace of the unconscious mind, pushing it further into pure abstraction and raw emotional expression.