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abstract expressionism

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun 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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  • noun usually capitalized Alternative form of Abstract Expressionism.

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  • noun a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles

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