the center of the western art world shifted from europe to the u.s in the 1940s.
when did the center of the western art world shift from europe to the u.s?
in the 1940s
abstract expressionism is a post–world war ii art movement 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 art world, a role formerly filled by paris. although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to american art in 1946 by the art critic robert coates, it had been first used in germany in 1919 in the magazine "der sturm", regarding german expressionism. in the united states, alfred barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by wassily kandinsky.
abstract expressionism
since the 1970s, such coffins have been recognized by the western art world as works of art in the western sense. the exhibition “les magiciens de la terre” 1989 and the theories of thierry secretan caused the teshie carpenter kane kwei to be acclaimed as the inventor of figurative coffins and only his products to be classified as works of art. through lack of knowledge, the western art world erroneously attributed the invention of a supposedly new art form to a single artist and made him and the figurative coffins world-famous, while the significance of the already existing figurative palanquins remained until recently completely unknown. therefore, in the west the figurative coffins acquired high artistic status which in fact would have belonged to the ga original art form, the figurative palanquins.
figurative palanquin