What's So Important About a School in New York?
New York School was an artistic movement headed by poets and painters living in New York City from the 1950-60s and is unique in the sense that many works focused on intense pop/mainstream culture references. The movement was heavily influenced by Surrealism and Modernism. The poets in the School didn't name themselves a school rather than a movement and held much distaste with that classification. The artistic branch of the movement modernized abstract painting called "action painting" in which they sometimes used the NY poets work to help form their emotions. The poets really focused on being avant-garde and expression. The School played a key role in the Gay rights/ expressionist movements of the 60's because all of the headlining poets were gay, their work gave insight and inspiration to the idea that being gay was a social identity and a form of expression for the emerging LBGTQ community.