Gauguin infused his masterpiece "where do we come from? what are we?
where are we going?" with all of the given themes above except art for
art's sake.
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.