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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.

abstract expressionism

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) 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 spontaneous, intuitive painting technique producing nonformal work characterized by sinuous lines. Also called Action Painting.

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

action painting

art movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles

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