Abstract Expressionism Exhibitions

Modernism · c. 1943–1965

Gesture, scale, raw emotion

The first American art movement to achieve global influence, centred on New York in the years after the Second World War. Pollock poured and dripped paint directly onto canvas; Rothko dissolved colour into luminous, hovering fields; de Kooning attacked the figure with violent brushwork. The scale was monumental, the gesture raw, the ambition existential.

Explore 2 Abstract Expressionism exhibitions on now and 1 coming soon.

Artists of this movement