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:An American born art movement that was inspired by Surrealism and its exploration of the subconcious and its emotional apppeals.
:It specifically started in New York, as many European Surrealist artists had emigrated here during the 1930s.
:This movement experimented with art's many aspects, including color, form and texture. Which emphasized rugged individualism and a romantic mood.
:many paintings of this movement were incredibly large, and as such were heavily planned. -
:A new wave of Dada-esque artworks, they demanded that the viewer thinks critically about the artwork they're viewing, rather than emotionally like how the Ab. Exp.ists do.
:They worked to disrupt the establishment, and had to be subversive as this was the time of great suspicion in America. (Red Scare, Lavender Scare, McCarthyism, etc.)
:Mocked and celebrated consumer culture by appropriating odd materials like discarded consumer goods and images from pop culture. -
Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953, 64.1x55.25cm, Remnants of drawing media on paper with label and gilded frame, MoMA, San Francisco.
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Jasper John, Target With Four Faces, -
Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959, combine of oil, pencil, paper, metal, photograph, fabric, wood, canvas, buttons, mirror, taxidermied eagle, cardboard, pillow, paint tube and other materials. 207.6x177.8x61cm,MoMA, New York.
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Jasper John, According To What, 1964