![]() It is for this reason that something ended in art with the passing of abstract expressionism, at least until it returned with the arrival of contemporary Aboriginal art. ![]() We will see how the search for the ‘intention’ behind abstract expressionism is replaced by the need to find the ‘motivation’ that drives abstraction. ![]() In this paper, I will outline this distinction through the work of the American philosopher Stanley Cavell, and attempt to show how it plays out in the criticism of one of Cavell's great followers, the art historian Michael Fried. Indeed, it is by means of this category that we might distinguish abstract expressionism from abstract art in general. But what would happen if we reversed the poles and understood abstract expressionism through Aboriginal art? One of the things that Aboriginal art might bring to our understanding of abstract expressionism is a sense of meaningfulness, or even of meaningfulness without meaning. That is to say, Aboriginal art is understood through abstract expressionism. Abstract expressionism is among the many Western art movements that Aboriginal art has been compared to. ![]()
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