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The art movement known as Abstract expressionism was considered to be an American post-World War II movement. This movement was the initial American movement to obtain worldwide impact and place New York City within the heart of the traditional western art culture, a task previously accomplished by Paris, France. Even though the phrase "abstract expressionism" was initially ascribed to American art in the mid 1940's due to art critic Robert Coates statements, it was initially founded in Germany in 1919 inside the periodical Der Sturm, pertaining to German Expressionism. In the U.S., a man named Alfred Barr had been the first person to make use of this expression in the late 1920's in connection with the artworks of Wassily Kandinsky. The movement's identity, abstract expressionism, hails from the amalgamation from the emotional, expressive vividness as well as self-denial within the German Expressionists while using anti-figurative makeup within the European abstract schools which include the Bauhaus, Futurism and Synthetic Cubism.
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