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* '''[[1952 in art]]''' - Jackson Pollock paints ''[[Blue Poles]]'', and ''Number Twelve'' (damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion, Albany, NY in 1961) an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both [[Color field painting]] and [[Lyrical Abstraction]] * '''[[1952 in art]]''' - Jackson Pollock paints ''[[Blue Poles]]'', and ''Number Twelve'' (damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion, Albany, NY in 1961) an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both [[Color field painting]] and [[Lyrical Abstraction]]
* '''[[1951 in art]]''' - Death of [[Wols]], Birth of [[Jack Spencer]], [[Willem de Kooning]] paints ''Woman I,'' the [[Ninth Street Show]] of 1951, NYC. A seminal event of [[Abstract Expressionism]]. * '''[[1951 in art]]''' - Death of [[Wols]], Birth of [[Jack Spencer]], [[Willem de Kooning]] paints ''Woman I,'' the [[Ninth Street Show]] of 1951, NYC. A seminal event of [[Abstract Expressionism]].
-* '''[[1950 in art]]''' - [[Jackson Pollock]] paints ''Autumn Rhythm'' [http://www.sissa.it/~fonte/New%20York%20City/Arte%20Contemporanea/HPIM0177.JPG]+* '''[[1950 in art]]''' - [[Jackson Pollock]] paints ''[[Autumn Rhythm]]''
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-== Art Movements ==+
-=== Abstract Expressionism ===+
-  ''Main Article: [[Abstract Expressionism]]''+
-First [[art movement]] specifically American to gain worldwide influence, abstract expressionism is also responsible for putting New York in the centre on the artistic world, a place previously owned by Paris, France. This movement acquired its name for combining the [[German expressionism]]'s emotional intensity with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as [[Futurism]], [[Bauhaus]] and [[Synthetic Cubism]]. [[Jackson Pollock]] was one of the most influential painters of this movement, creating famous works such as [[No. 5, 1948]].+
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-=== Pop art === +
-  ''Main Article: [[Pop art]]''+
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-With its roots in [[dadaism]], pop art started to take form towards the end of the 1950s when some artists, after studying symbols and products of the world of [[propaganda]] in the United States, started to make them the main subject of their artistic work. That way, they used the most ostensive components of [[popular culture]], with powerful influence in the daily life of the second half of the 20th century. +
-It was the return of a [[figurative art]], in opposition to the abstract expressionism that dominated the aesthetic scene since the end of World War II. Pop art used [[iconography]] of television, photography, comics, cinema and advertising. [[Andy Warhol]] was the most known artist of this movement, and in spite of it having initiated in the 50s, its most famous works date of the later decade.+
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Abstract expressionism was the first art movement specifically American to gain worldwide influence, was responsible for putting New York City in the centre on the artistic world, a place previously owned by Paris, France. This movement acquired its name for combining the German expressionism's emotional intensity with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, Bauhaus and Synthetic Cubism. Jackson Pollock was one of the most influential painters of this movement, creating famous works such as No. 5, 1948.

Color Field painting and Hard-edge painting followed close on the heels of Abstract expressionism, and became the idiom for new abstraction in painting during the late 1950s. The term second generation was applied to many abstract artists who were related to but following different painterly directions than the earliest abstract expressionists. In the early 1950s Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were enormously influential. However by the late 1950s Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko's paintings became more in focus to the next generation.

Pop art, with its roots in dadaism started to take form towards the end of the 1950s when some artists, after studying symbols and products of the world of propaganda in the United States, started to make them the main subject of their artistic work. That way, they used the most ostensive components of popular culture, with powerful influence in the daily life of the second half of the 20th century. It was the return of a figurative art, in opposition to the abstract expressionism that dominated the aesthetic scene since the end of World War II. Pop art used iconography of television, photography, comics, cinema and advertising. Andy Warhol was the most known artist of this movement, and in spite of it having initiated in the 50s, its most famous works date of the later decade.

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