abstract expressionism
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, and a desire to give spontaneous expression to the unconscious.
Origin of abstract expressionism
1- Sometimes Abstract Expressionism .
Other words from abstract expressionism
- abstract expressionist, noun
Words Nearby abstract expressionism
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How to use abstract expressionism in a sentence
Thomas’s work has long been associated with the Washington Color School and, more generally, abstract expressionism, embracing the color psychology of the former and the action-packed canvases of the latter.
Washington celebrates Alma Thomas, the late D.C. painter who sought beauty in the everyday | Kelsey Ables | September 21, 2021 | Washington PostTheir size, their subtlety, their lack of any representational material and their use of monochromatic wax and encaustic all seem to suggest an effort to domesticate the male-dominated world of abstract expressionism.
Artist Lynda Benglis became controversial in an instant, but her career has thrived for decades | Philip Kennicott | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostDi Bello described the color-splashed works as “abstract expressionism” with “surrealist” methods.
At the most fundamental level, abstract expressionism evokes existential angst for instance, and Pop Art satirizes consumerism.
abstract expressionism defined the artistic climate in which the photographs for The Americans were produced.
“Jasper and I used to start each day by having to move out from abstract expressionism,” Rauschenberg once said.
British Dictionary definitions for abstract expressionism
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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for abstract expressionism
A school of art that flourished primarily from the 1940s to the 1960s, noted for its large-scale, nonrepresentational works by artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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