| Samenvatting: | Following the outbreak of World War II, the focus of artistic activity shifted, for the first time, from Europe to the United States and to young painters in New York, including Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko (see pages 12?19). Grouped under the rubric abstract expressionism, their diverse styles generally fall into two categories: one relying primarily on the artist?s gesture and the other on color. Although a few painters, such as de Kooning, continued to use recognizable images, most did not. At first their pictures shocked the public, but they soon came to dominate the art world.
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