<em>Abstract Expressionism</em> is a post-World War 2 <em>art movement</em> 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 <em>art world</em>, a role formerly filled by Paris. Although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in 1919 by the art critic <em>Robert Coates</em>, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine <em>Der Sturm</em>, regarding <em>German Expressionism</em>. It the United States, <em>Alfred Barr</em> was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by <em>Wassily Kandinsky.</em>
The source of the attached painting of Michelangelo
Buonarroti’s, Last Judgement is in the book of revelations in the bible. The painting depicts the Second Coming of
Christ and the final judgement by God for all human souls. The soul of humans
rise and descend to their fates as judged by Christ surrounded by known saints.
