While in the post-WWII era, Abstract Expressionism moved the middle of Western art from Paris to New York Town. Amongst the principal influences within the increase of abstraction, the critic Clement Greenberg, had supported de Kooning's early abstract work. Despite Greenberg's assistance, the artist, who had started being a figurative painter, ret

But since the roles of LGBTQ characters expanded and they graduated from the sidelines into the mainframes, they frequently ended up being tortured or tragic, a trend that was heightened during the AIDS crisis in the ’80s and ’90s, when for many, for being a gay person meant being doomed to life from the shadows or under a cloud of death.. Whil