Abstract Expressionism Definition

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A school of painting that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s, characterized by the view that art is nonrepresentational and chiefly improvisational.
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A post-WWII movement in painting characterized by emphasis on the artist's spontaneous and self-expressive application of paint in creating a nonrepresentational composition.
Webster's New World

(usually capitalized) An American genre of modern art that used improvised techniques, such as sinuous linearity, to generate highly abstract forms while allowing the artist spontaneity. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]

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  • Setch is one of a generation of leading British artists whose work was fundamentally affected by American abstract expressionism in the late 1950s.

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  • Experimental currents in visual arts such as abstract expressionism were unfavorably compared with the soviet socialist realism.

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