Meaning Of The Word Abstract expressionism
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Abstract expressionism Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Abstract expressionism?
abstract expressionism in American English
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 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, abstract expressionism in British English 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 |
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