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Why did people start the art movement of abstract expressionism?
Why, oh, why?!
The same question can, of course, be made about every new type of art, from the stone age till today. The answer must be that one or more artists wanted to make something original....
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Was Abstract Expressionism America's first homegrown Modernist movement?
In Modernism, yes.Earlier there was for example Luminism, an American landscape painting style of the 1850s - 1870s.
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What is Abstract Expressionism?
Jackson Pollock, No. 5, 1948, oil on fiberboard, 244 x 122 cm. (96 x 48 in.), private collection.Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically...
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How was the progressive movement different from others?
Progressives differed in their perceptions of the nature of the nation's problems and of how best to resolve them, but most shared the conviction that government at all levels must play an active...
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Where did abstract expressionism start in the world?
It started in Germany and Austria, and it slowly moved it way to America after World War ||.