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
Mitchell, who would've been 100 this year, was one of the most celebrated artists of the abstract expressionist movement.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025
She later married Gert Berliner, an abstract expressionist artist and fellow refugee who was born in Berlin.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
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
Hines, an abstract expressionist, garnered some recognition in 1980 by using fabric to wrap the arch in New York City’s Washington Square in an intricate crisscross pattern.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
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