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abstract expressionism
noun
- a movement in experimental, nonrepresentational painting originating in the U.S. in the 1940s, with sources in earlier movements, and embracing many individual styles marked in common by freedom of technique, a preference for dramatically large canvases, and a desire to give spontaneous expression to the unconscious.
abstract expressionism
noun
- a school of painting in New York in the 1940s that combined the spontaneity of expressionism with abstract forms in unpremeditated, apparently random, compositions See also action painting tachisme
abstract expressionism
- A school of art that flourished primarily from the 1940s to the 1960s, noted for its large-scale, nonrepresentational works by artists such as Willem de Kooning , Jackson Pollock , and Mark Rothko .
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Word History and Origins
Origin of abstract expressionism1
An Americanism dating back to 1950–55
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Example Sentences
Di Bello described the color-splashed works as “abstract expressionism” with “surrealist” methods.
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At the most fundamental level, Abstract Expressionism evokes existential angst for instance, and Pop Art satirizes consumerism.
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Abstract Expressionism defined the artistic climate in which the photographs for The Americans were produced.
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“Jasper and I used to start each day by having to move out from Abstract Expressionism,” Rauschenberg once said.
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