The term "Abstract Expressionism" was coined by Robert Coates in the New Yorker in 1936. It was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence.

Although the abstract expressionist school spread quickly throughout the United States, the major centers of this style were New York City and California, especially the San Francisco Bay area. Abstract Expressionism does not actually describe a particular style, but more the attitude.

Abstart Expressionism artists included: Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning. Abstract Expressionism has many stylistic similarities to the Russian artists of the early twentieth century such as Wassily Kandinsky.



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