Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy

This ambitious exhibition of wildly beautiful art brings together Mark Rothko's chromatic rectangles, Jackson Pollock's pouring and drip paintings, Ad Reinhardt's rows of squares, Franz Kline's black and white pictures and Willem de Kooning's women paintings, to name but a few, for the first time in the UK since 1959.
Abstract Expressionism changed the course of 20th century art, happening after previous artists had opened up new ways of representing the world around them, such as the Impressionists, Surrealists, Cubists and Fauves, all of whom had been regularly represented in exhibitions in New York during the 1930s and 1940s.
The creative energy of 1950s America is captured by the diverse American Abstract Expressionists, who broke free from the constraints of convention with their radically experimental works, often on a huge scale, dealing with the language of emotions and the individual sensibilities of the artists.
RA: Abstract Expressionism 24th September 2016 until 2nd January 2017