abstract expressionist
Americannoun
adjective
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In 1952, Greenspan married an abstract expressionist artist named Joan Mitchell and soon came under the intellectual sway of one of her acquaintances, Ayn Rand, author of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
Pollock, who died in 1956, was a major figure in the abstract expressionist art movement.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
The building is also home to other members of a live-work artists’ collective that Monroe’s late father, Black abstract expressionist painter and elder community activist Arthur Monroe, formed in 1975.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2023
Bernice Bing, whose intense abstract expressionist paintings fused Eastern and Western techniques, had a lot going against her in the eyes of museum curators.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022
Whipple later found out they were by Francis Hines, an abstract expressionist who died in 2016 at 96 and had kept his work stored in the barn, Hearst Connecticut Media Group reported.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2022
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