abstract expressionist

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The phrase “Abstract Expressionist” conjures up hard-drinking, chain-smoking men arguing loudly in the male-dominated enclaves of the Cedar Tavern and the Club about what paintings can and cannot be.

From The Wall Street Journal

They resemble three-dimensional versions of abstract expressionist paintings, Mr Farquharson said.

From BBC

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