美国的现代主义美术,从发生、兴盛到衰落大约经历了近一个世纪,却演绎了一部声势浩大而又近乎悲壮的文化史剧。从年代上看大致是二战以前为向外学习和寻探时期;四五十年代在学习欧洲现代主义艺术的基础上如其所愿地建立了自己纯艺术的抽象表现主义;六七十年代出现了波普艺术、达达派艺术、偶发艺术、行为艺术、表现艺术、身体艺术、大地艺术、 The modern American art from the United States, from occurrence, prosperity to decline about the past century, but performed a massive and almost tragic cultural history drama. From the perspective of the age, it was generally the period of studying and exploring before World War II. In the 1940s and 1950s, based on the study of the art of European modernism, it created its abstract expressionism of pure art when it desired. In the 1960s and 1970s, Pop Art, Dada Art, Sporadic Art, Performance Art, Performance Art, Body Art, Land Art,