Christine Alfery is a post  modernist abstract expressionist painter.  Just what is  abstract expressionism?  Abstract Expressionism is a movement in U.S. painting that began in the late 1940s. Many artist's today, such as Christine, still paint in the abstract expressionism style because they relate to the abstract expressionist movement and what it stands for. Early in the 1930's abstract expressionism influenced by the radical paintings of Arshle Gorky and Hans Hofman and by the immigration in the late 1930s and early '40s of many European avant-garde artists to New York. The abstract expressionist movement itself is generally regarded as having begun with the paintings done by Jackson Pollock, Robert Raushenberg and Willem de Kooning in the late 1940s and early '50s. They would gather together in a New York cafe after painting in their studios all day and talk about what they believed in and how they were expressing it in their works. Christine like these artists resist the leveling of thithings should be.

Other artists who came to be associated with the abstract expressionist movement include  Newman, Adolph Gottlief, Robert Motherwell, Lee Krasner and Ad Reinhard. Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Philip Guston, Cy Twombly and Helen Frankenthaler,  Christine Alfery easily associates with the artists from the abstract expressionist movement. In her paintings she makes marks that cry out their own sense of freedom and independence. Christine  discards the notion of painting figurative, representational subject-matter. She believes that each mark she paints, each line she paints each color she places on a painting has their own history and it's own subject matter. Each is a thing in itself, yet each relate to the others that are placed with it. The unified whole of her paintings is that they are eternal and can become something new every time they are viewed.  Christine's Alfery's abstract expressionist paintings assimilate the style and freedom of these earlier artists but especially her paintings resemble the work of Frankenthaler, de Kooning and Twombly.

The abstract expressionist movement comprised many painting styles but shared several characteristics. The abstract expressionist paintings were usually abstract that is they depicted forms not found in the natural world. Abstract expressionists emphasized freedom of emotional expression, technique, and execution; they displayed a single unified, undifferentiated field, network, or other image in unstructured space. The canvases abstract expressionists paintings are painted on were large, to enhance the visual effect and project monumentality, power, freedom and personal expression. The abstract expressionist movement had a great impact on U.S. and European art in the 1950s; it marked the shift of the creative centre of modern painting from Paris to New York.

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