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During the post-war period in America, abstract expressionism emerged as a new art movement. This was influenced by the changing social and political climate, including the Civil Rights Act and feminist movements. Abstract expressionism focused on emotional effects and used colors and brush strokes instead of depicting specific people. One of the main artists of this movement was Franz Kline, known for his spontaneous and intense style. The winds of change brought about a shift in art and literature, reflecting increased diversity and addressing social and political issues such as civil rights and decolonization. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech inspired artists to create work that promoted racial equality and social justice. Art also started to influence housing styles, with more creative and unique designs. Postmodern architecture offered new ways for artists to express themselves. Overall, these artistic movements reflected societal changes and allowed for the exploratio Hello, my name is Linda Duffy and I'm going to be presenting on Chapter 15, The Plural Self in a Global Culture. So, the first topic talks about America after the war and how abstract expressionalism starts to take off and this is because many artists felt like as the time period was shifting, people were getting more freedom, the Civil Rights Act was happening, feminist movements started happening and this was starting to be demonstrated in art and this led to many innovations in art and people really becoming more creative. And the main hotspots were in New York and Paris and New York was a really big one for abstract expressionalism. So, abstract expressionalism was based in New York and gained a lot of attention after World War II and it started to shift from the American social realism and abstract art really focuses on emotional effects using colors and brush strokes instead of focusing on specific people. And so, this was inspired by surrealism, an idea that art should come from the unconscious mind. And so, abstract expressionalism had, there was two types of it and one of the people who did action painting, which is using expressive brush strokes, color filled with large areas of single color, was Franz Kline and he was a main person in the abstract expressionalism movement at the time and a lot of critics said that his art style was very hard to interpret and some even claimed that there was no meaning behind it and he had a very spontaneous and intense style. He was one of the people who was known for brush strokes and not painting specific people and it's used in a manner where they make sweeping gestural marks and he is an action painter. So, in chapter 5.2, the winds of change focuses on how like a representation and diversity and with more protest coming up and post-colonial perspective, there became a shift in art and literature and so, as there was an increased representation from diversity, art and literature started to reflect these changes and the changing demographic and social attitudes allowed writers to explore themes relating to race, gender, sexual identity, and these arts help push the boundaries of traditional norms and stereotypes. So, at this time, many artists were also using their work as a platform for addressing social and political issues such as the civil rights movement and like environment problems, anti-war movements were all starting to be reflected in art and post-colonial perspectives was the decolonization movement in the mid-20th century and it influenced art and literature by encouraging artists to reclaim their cultural identities and challenge colonial legacies. So, Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech was one of the main movements that helped inspire people to make art relating to race and accepting different groups of people and it became a rallying cry for the civil rights movement. Countless activists, artists, and writers joined the struggle for racial equality and social justice. Many artists incorporated themes of civil rights into their work using creative platforms to support these goals and at this time, this is why art started to become more creative and art had more emotion behind it and his speech also helped bring people together. It symbolized hope and that it reconciled with people from different backgrounds and inspired a sense of collective purpose for people to work together and artists drew upon this feeling and of this harmonious, inclusive feeling and fostered a sense of optimism in their work and like I mentioned, his I Have a Dream speech really reflected that there was societal change happening and that it was marking pivotal moments in society from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Act of 1965 and art at this time also like included this in their work. So, in the chapter 15.3, the plural sepsum one, Globals Culture really showed how art also was shifting housing styles in America. People were becoming more creative. So, some specific examples of this was before there was like this international style of houses. They were very light, very straight edge, like no really creative aspects to it, just really stripped of all applied orientation and decoration. They were very open with interior spaces and as you can see the picture here is a good example of this. It's very plain and basic and there's no really like special spark to it and it was very, you could say uniform and easy and so by the end of 1960s, artists were feeling more free to engage in a wider spectrum of painting and experimental approaches and this is just due to the whole societal shift in America with like just human rights really being like revolutionized at this time and there was like graffiti starting to become more thing and more blown abstraction compared to like more realism art and this is just from like I previously mentioned like the post World War II effects and like the big racial movements and so this resulted in electric architectural styles which inspired artists to get creative with houses and designing the exterior and interior of the houses and not even like necessarily listening to the client but very blown out facades and like pillars and like rounded styles compared to the very square simple styles. There was more details, more like things that didn't make houses cookie cutter and every house had like their own unique style and it's from the artists really expressing like their artistic abilities through the architecture and so in 15.4 it just really kind of concludes that postmodern architecture really offered a new way of work and like how to show your art off in different ways not just painting and artists felt more free as there was societal change and expressive abstractalism became more prominent and more pivotal in this time and this is all from post World War II effects and like the race and gender movements so a pure literally style in painting is a visual reality that we cannot see or describe and it creates a means of approach of things we don't understand so like some things that's like hard for people to under like grasp like heaven or hell or like death or stuff like that is now reflected in this painting style and you don't need words to explain it you can use the painting to explain how you feel.