1945: Thanks to World War II New York becomes the art capital of the world.
Dali, Ernst, Leger, Lipchitz, Masson, Matta, Mondrian, Tanguy, and Beton make New York their home.
Art evolves at an exciting pace. Cubism, Expressionism, and Dada-Surrealism lead to total abstraction. The pure aesthetic of Abstract-Expressionism is born. Pollock, Hofmann, Gorky, Rothko and de Kooning predate Warhol as the art world's media darlings. At the time, many question the talent of these individuals. Nevertheless, these artists opened a new doorway in humankind's spatial and spiritual visual journey.
1962: The National Academy of Sciences proposes the developement of a large space telescope.
1990: The Hubble space telescope is launched after a delay of 5 years, due to the Challenger disaster
1993: The world's largest contact lense is used to correct the Hubble's blurred vision.
Subconciously, The New York school foresaw the dynamic conflict between positive and negative, flatness and space found in the shifting forms of nebula and galaxies discovered by hubble. The awe inspiring beauty of such interstellar phenomena is no differant then the pure visual aesthetic developed by the New York School.
referance cited:
Art since the Mid-Century, 1945 to te present/Daniel Wheeler, pages 61 -81
http://hubblesite.org/gallery
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/spacehistory/hubble-history.html
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