Module 9 : The Bauhaus and
Modern Design Education
Lecture 24 : Op in Fashion Design, Op in Product Design, Abstract Expressionists
Abstract Expressionism is a post WW II movement that originated from the German Expressionism in 1910. “Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War IIart movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. Although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regarding German Expressionism.”
(Ref:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism ; February 27, 2013)
Wassily Kandinsky’s work in 1929 is referred as the beginning of Abstract Expression movement.
DerSturm (German: The Storm) magazine covering the expressionism movement named Kandinsky’s work as Abstract Expressions. The magazine continued weekly until monthly in 1914, and became a quarterly in 1924 until it ceased publication in 1932.
