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Abstract Expressionism c 1945 - c 1962 USA A movement that emerged in New York in the 1940s. The large-scale, abstract canvases have sweeping brushstrokes, large fields of color, and individualized forms that characterize each artist's personal expression. Also known as Action Painting and American-style painting. Less a style than an attitude. |
| William Baziotes (1912-1963) |
| Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) |
| Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) |
| Philip Guston (1913-1980) | |
| Franz Kline (1910-1962) | |
| Lee Krasner (1908-1984) | |
| Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) |
| Barnett Newman (1905-1972) |
| Mark Rothko (1903-1970) |
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| Clyfford Still (1904-1980) |