American Synchromism was the first significant American art movement. It grew out of Cubism in the early years of the twentieth century in Paris. Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell began the movement, which was based on color harmonies that they called Synchromies. This movement paralleled the Orphic Cubism of Robert Delaunay, Franz Marc and August Macke.
American artists in New York originated the movement called Abstract Expressionism, which features large abstract paintings done with painterly gestures. Artists such as Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning are known for their Abstract Expressionist paintings. Abstract Expressioniism features the abstraction of an image, using large, visible brush strokes and paintbrush gestures of color.
American artists originated the Pop Art movement, using popular celebrities and name brands as subject matter. Artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg have produced Pop Art using as their inspiration name brand products (Campbell's tomato soup), prominent social figures (Jackie Kennedy), movie stars (Marilyn Monroe) and rock musicians (Mick Jagger).