The canvas as the arena became a credo of Action painting, while the integrity of the picture plane became a credo of the Color field painters. In 1953 Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland were both profoundly influenced by Helen Frankenthaler's stain paintings after visiting her studio in New York City. Hofmann was renowned not only as an artist but also as a teacher of art, both in his native Germany and later in the U.S. Hans Hofmann, who came to the United States from Germany in the early 1930s, brought with him the legacy of Modernism. Soon after his first exhibition, Barnett Newman remarked in one of the Artists' Sessions at Studio 35: "We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image. [58] Other books on the subject include Art in the Cold War, by Christine Lindey, which also describes the art of the Soviet Union at the same time, and Pollock and After, edited by Francis Frascina, which reprinted the Kimmelman article. The political climate after World War II did not long tolerate the social protests of these painters.

In addition, the artists David Hare, John Chamberlain, James Rosati, Mark di Suvero, and sculptors Richard Lippold, Raoul Hague, George Rickey, Reuben Nakian, and even Tony Smith, Seymour Lipton, Joseph Cornell, and several others[9] were integral parts of the abstract expressionist movement. [18] In the United States, a new generation of American artists began to emerge and to dominate the world stage, and they were called Abstract Expressionists. Canadian painter Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923–2002), a member of the Montreal-based surrealist-inspired group Les Automatistes, helped introduce a related style of abstract impressionism to the Parisian art world from 1949.

Brooks began diluting his oil paint in order to have fluid colors with which to pour and drip and stain into the mostly raw canvas that he used. byamshawart: We are so excited to have one of the latest... A collection of paintings by Canadian Artist Linda Wilder. El expresionismo abstracto utiliza trazos desordenados o violentos. His paintings straddled both camps within the abstract expressionist rubric, Action painting and Color Field painting. Este fenómeno marcó el principio del fin de la hegemonía cultural francesa y el inicio de la estadounidense. "The big moment came when it was decided to paint 'just to paint'. [25] American artists also benefited from the presence of Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst, and the André Breton group, Pierre Matisse's gallery, and Peggy Guggenheim's gallery The Art of This Century, as well as other factors. James Brooks' paintings were particularly poetic and highly prescient in relationship to Lyrical Abstraction that became prominent in the late 1960s and the 1970s.[46]. [4] Another important early manifestation of what came to be abstract expressionism is the work of American Northwest artist Mark Tobey, especially his "white writing" canvases, which, though generally not large in scale, anticipate the "all-over" look of Pollock's drip paintings. Matisse's work had an enormous influence on him, and on his understanding of the expressive language of color and the potentiality of abstraction. In pursuing this direction of modern art, artists wanted to present each painting as one unified, cohesive, monolithic image. His first solo show was in 1948. Having seen Jackson Pollock's 1951 paintings of thinned black oil paint stained into raw canvas, Helen Frankenthaler began to produce stain paintings in varied oil colors on raw canvas in 1952.