LA SECONDE ÉCOLE DE PARIS : 1940 À NOS JOURS : 71, RUE DU FAUBOURG SAINT-HONORÉ, PARIS 8E

Post war art, defines a time period in art history and simultaneously introduces contemporary art.
Though necessarily broad, in general this group of artists attempted to re-establish identity and cope with the trauma of the war, the onset of the Cold War, and the shift in the art world center from New York to Paris.
Post war Europe found its artists, both established and those making their first appearances in the art world, changed and challenged. They questioned beauty and aesthetics, but also the very role of the artist and the impact of artistic creation. With a world divided in two and the artistic center wavering between Paris and New York, this era could not fail to give rise to artists of unimaginable creativity.