abstract expressionistn.adj.
/ˈabstrakt ᵻkˈsprɛʃn̩ɪst/, /ˈabstrakt ɛkˈsprɛʃn̩ɪst/, /ˈabstrakt ᵻkˈsprɛʃənɪst/, /ˈabstrakt ɛkˈsprɛʃənɪst/, U.S. /ˈæbˌstræk(t) ɪkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nəst/, /ˈæbˌstræk(t) ɛkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nəst/ Fine Art.
A. n.
A practitioner or exponent of abstract expressionism; (sometimes) spec. = action painter n. at action n. Compounds 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > action painting or tachism > artist
abstract expressionist1929
action painter1952
tachist1954
1929 A. H. Barr in Mus. Mod. Art (N.Y.) First Loan Exhib. 15 Kandinsky..was to become the first ‘abstract’ expressionist.
1934 S. Cheney Expressionism in Art xi. 337 The Cubists were the most significant ‘school’ in the long progression between Cezanne and the abstract-Expressionists.
1952 B. S. Myer in Coll. Art Jrnl. Summer 306/1 The so-called Abstract Expressionists brought paint and sensation into a state of equality whereas the conventional Expressionists were presumably overwhelmed by sensation.
1957 K. Rexroth in New World Writing No. 11. 32 Many of the post-World War II abstract expressionists..look alike, and do look like accidents.
1985 New Yorker 4 Nov. 67/1 Pollock, Rothko, Kline, and others of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists.
2006 Art Rev. Aug. 74/2 The Abstract Expressionists had simpler rules. Their work was conditioned by the size of the canvas and the distance and gestures of the artist.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of abstract expressionism.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > tachist
abstract expressionist1936
tachist1955
1936 A. H. Barr Cubism & Abstr. Art 140 1914..Doesburg paints abstract Expressionist pictures.
1950 Sewanee Rev. 58 366 Hoffman belongs..to what is usually called the abstract-expressionist trend, one of the liveliest in American painting today.
1958 Observer 3 Aug. 11/7 William Johnstone's method has an increasing air of abstract-expressionist improvisation.
1995 New Yorker 4 Dec. 22/1 Cell-like enclosures of computer-generated doodles and splashy Abstract Expressionist brushstrokes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.adj.1929