American Impressionism influenced modern American art.
Art in America is classified into different aesthetic categories called genres, and each genre has its own theory and style of expression. American art has evolved out of American Impressionism and has reflected the influence of European trends in Modernism: Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. America has contributed American Synchromism and Abstract Expressionism, including trends in Pop Art, Op Art and kinetic sculpture.
American Synchromism
Synchromism was the first significant art movement in America.
American Synchromism was the first significant American art movement. It grew out of Cubism in the early years of the twentieth century in Paris. Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell began the movement, which was based on color harmonies that they called Synchromies. This movement paralleled the Orphic Cubism of Robert Delaunay, Franz Marc and August Macke.
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism began in New York.
American artists in New York originated the movement called Abstract Expressionism, which features large abstract paintings done with painterly gestures. Artists such as Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning are known for their Abstract Expressionist paintings. Abstract Expressioniism features the abstraction of an image, using large, visible brush strokes and paintbrush gestures of color.
Pop Art
Most Americans associate Pop Art with Andy Warhol.
American artists originated the Pop Art movement, using popular celebrities and name brands as subject matter. Artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg have produced Pop Art using as their inspiration name brand products (Campbell's tomato soup), prominent social figures (Jackie Kennedy), movie stars (Marilyn Monroe) and rock musicians (Mick Jagger).
