post-war art
Art after conflict
Post-war art refers to artistic movements and works created in the decades following World War II, roughly 1945 through the 1970s.
The period saw radical experimentation as artists responded to wartime trauma and shifted cultural centers—Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York, while European movements like Art Informel and CoBrA developed simultaneously.
The museum's post-war art collection includes Pollock, de Kooning, and Bacon.
- Abstract ExpressionismGestural, nonrepresentational American painting movement
- assemblageCollected group of things
- MinimalismArt stripped to essentials
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
Jackson Pollock · Mark Rothko · found objects · Cold War tensions · video art · avant-garde · Andy Warhol · Francis Bacon · performance art · silkscreen printing · anti-war sentiment · installation art · manifesto · Pollock · modernism · angst · emotional · gestural
post-war artBeaux-Arts
Classical French architectural tradition
Art Nouveau · Impressionism · classical art · decorative art · neoclassical art