- The term "Abstract Expressionism" was initially coined in Europe to describe works by German Expressionist painters.
- abstract expressionism ifadesi daha çok amerika için geçerlidir. aynı dönemde benzer akımın avrupa’daki ismi art informale (biçimsiz sanat) olarak anılır.
- The America of the 1940s, from which abstract expressionism emerged, was still fragile by the collapse of the world order produced by World War II.
- Abstract Expressionism flourished in the 1940s and 1950s, and the paintings were seen all over the world in travelling exhibitions and publications.
- Abstract Expressionism is one of the most peculiar art movements to have come out of the many different modern-day schools of artistic thought and expression.
- The surrealists came to New York bringing with them their expressive freedom, their pictorial identity and their theory of automatism, abstract expressionism.
- America in the 1950s. Abstract Expressionism emerged in a climate of Cold War politics and social and cultural conservatism.
- The term Abstract Expressionism was first applied to American painters who aimed to portray their emotions through abstraction.
- "Abstract Expressionism" was never an ideal label for the movement, which developed in New York in the 1940s and 1950s.