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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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