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abstract expressionist

American  
[ab-strakt-ik-spre-shuhn-ist] / ˈæb strækt ɪkˈsprɛ ʃən ɪst /

noun

  1. an artist associated with or working in the style of abstract expressionism.


adjective

  1. of or relating to abstract expressionism.

Example Sentences

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Existential inquiry is an artistic staple, but typically it tends toward big gestures and grand declarations — see extravagant and flamboyant Abstract Expressionist paintings of the late-1940s and 1950s for examples.

From Los Angeles Times

Mitchell, who would've been 100 this year, was one of the most celebrated artists of the abstract expressionist movement.

From BBC

“It’s like being in New York when the Abstract Expressionist movement was happening or in Paris around the turn of the century with the advent of Cubism.”

From Los Angeles Times

In early 2020, Denise Di Novi — the producer of five Tim Burton classics, five film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels and two versions of “Little Women” — began an unexpected journey from Hollywood hitmaker to abstract expressionist painter.

From Los Angeles Times

The situation is starting to improve, as demonstrated with recent exhibitions by the German painter, printmaker and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz at MoMA in New York, the Ukrainian American Abstract Expressionist painter Janet Sobel at the city’s Ukrainian Museum, and the painter Christina Ramberg at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From New York Times