Inspired But Never Mimicked.

    I started this project with a limited understanding of the history of Abstract Expressionism, and the making of it. Reading Barbara Hess' Abstract Expressionism, showed me how I had only scratched the surface of information from the discussions in my past Art History class. I knew the time fram of the movement and a bit about how the government was really cool and knew that art shouldn't be lost because of the recession, so they were paid to make art for public installations. There was a lot of information to process, but one of the first things that was discussed was the term Abstract Expressionism.
      Some things I learned were that the term Abstract Expressionism itself began as a title to the artist who were opposed to categorizing movements in art and separating them into categories. Like Abstract Expressionism, many movements in art have a blurred line from when they begin and end because there are artists who dabble between the lines and do not fit in a specific category. The difference with Abstract Expressionism though, is that the methods of simply getting the paint on the canvaas and the subject matter is so unique to each individual, it literally cannot be mimicked because the essence of Abstract Expressionism is about the individual and about conveying a feeling within, that no one else can besides the individual, and that's super cool.