Americans turned to it’s own form of domestic emerging abstract art devoid of representational imagery. Socialist and Nazi re-institution of Realism confirmed modern abstraction as the preferred style [..]

the tendency to revert to an ancestral type. An evolutionary throwback, such as traits reappearing which had disappeared generations ago.

junking of all traditional rules of art in favor of chance as the direct creative access to the unconscious.

(Italian for clear-dark) is a term for a contrast between light and dark. The term is usually applied to bold contrasts of light and dark affecting a whole composition and creating great volume. See t [..]

abandonment of easel painting in favor of kinetic art and technical design.

the component of the artwork not based on formal elements such as the idea or ideas, the narrative, meta-narrative, subtext, political agenda, etc.

Our understanding of language is comprised or “constructed” of a complex interrelationship of spoken sounds, written marks, and a cultural system of signs where these signs obtain meaning through its [..]

Concerns with the changes of language over a period of time.

Debate, discourse.

extended speech, the code of language used to express personal thought.