一、美国当代抽象表现主义的精神实质在西方当代绘画中,占主要地位的仍然是波洛克和克兰开创的抽象表现主义绘画。自现代艺术以来,西方艺术家正使笔触表达脱离物象,努力使笔触表现成为一种独立的审美形式,使艺术表达最终走向抽象表现的方向。就西方当代绘画的一般现象来看,抽象表现主义绘画经历半个世纪,时至今日仍然是一种影响较大的艺术潮流。目前,西方画坛仍然存在着各种不同类型的抽象表现主义绘画,即使在表现风格上有所不同,也都是大 I. The Essence of American Contemporary Abstract Expressionism In contemporary Western paintings, the dominant expressionist painting of Abstract Expressionism was still the creation of Pollock and Crane. Since the modern art, western artists are making the expression of brush strokes out of the image, striving to make the expression of brush stroke an independent form of aesthetics, so that the expression of art finally approaches the direction of abstract expression. As for the general phenomenon of contemporary western painting, abstract expressionist painting has experienced half a century and is still an influential artistic trend to this day. At present, there are still many different types of abstract expressionist paintings in Western painting circles, even though they are different in style of expression