The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph
of American
abstract expressionism, a Modernist movement that combined
lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, surrealism, Joan Miró, cubism, Fauvism, and early modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham.
What
lessons, theories
of abstract expressionism, I mean the theories
of what you see, and your practice for instance, and your writing, what can all
of this have for currently practicing artists for this generation and for succeeding generations?