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Meanings of abstract expressionism in English

Portuguese
expressionismo abstrato
Catalan
expressionisme abstracte

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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expressionismo abstrato
Russian
абстрактный экспрессионизм
Portuguese
expressionismo abstrato
Spanish
escuela de nueva york
Catalan
expressionisme abstracte

World War II art movement in America.

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абстрактный экспрессионизм
Usage of abstract expressionism in English
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Was part of abstract expressionism, was part of its break through size?
The new yorker
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It turns out I like group singing and the abstract expressionism of small children.
The Irish Times
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I'm terse with the minimalists, wild with abstract expressionism and florid with the baroque.
The Guardian
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Conventional wisdom discounts the success of abstract expressionism as a piece of CIA-sponsored cultural imperialism.
The Irish Times
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The narrative began with impressionism, moved to expressionism, fauvism, cubism, Dadaism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism.
Roast mortem
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In the following years Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell produced the most powerful responses to classic abstract expressionism.
The Guardian
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They pioneered abstract expressionism and helped move the centre of the art world from Paris to New York.
Radio NZ
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It is as if he was trying to create pop art and abstract expressionism on the same canvas.
The Guardian
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From the opening titles, abstract expressionism reigns powerfully and conveys a great deal of intense, if finally unspecifiable, meaning.
Reuters
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Nevelson is one of a number of women who played an important, if generally unacknowledged role in abstract expressionism.
The Guardian
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Chicago is represented by companies like five-year-old Manual Cinema that incorporates multimedia, soundscapes, and storytelling focusing on abstract expressionism.
Reuters
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All four are painters, but their work spans a little history of art from abstract expressionism to minimalism and back again.
The Irish Times
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What he learned there, and at a show of American abstract expressionism in Brussels in 1959, he made local as soon as he got home.
The Guardian
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He has taken the legacy of postwar abstract expressionism, and allied to that a deep love of the great eternal themes of the classical world.
The Guardian
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A room of black-and-white canvases shows him working with paint as if it were charcoal, drawing then freely erasing, the blackened results presaging abstract expressionism.
The Guardian
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Anxious Red Drawings are just as the title describes: pissed-off washes of deep red paint consume the canvas, recalling abstract expressionism in its darkest moods.
The Guardian