abstract expressionism in British English
noun
a school of painting in New York in the 1940s that combined the spontaneity of expressionism with abstract forms in unpremeditated, apparently random, compositions
See also action painting, tachismeabstract expressionism in American English
US
a post-WWII movement in painting characterized by emphasis on the artist's spontaneous and self-expressive application of paint in creating a nonrepresentational composition
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Word lists withabstract expressionism
Art styles and movements- you can't be too careful
- you-cant-be-too-careful
- you can't compare ...
- you can't fool me
- you can't get/there's no getting away from
- you can't have it both ways
- you can't hear yourself think
- you can't judge a book by its cover
- you can't keep a good man down
- you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
- you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- you can't put a price on friendship/your health
- you can't talk
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- you can't win
- you could at least be polite!
- you could cut the atmosphere with a knife
- you could have heard a pin drop you could hear a pin drop
- you could have knocked me down with a feather
- you couldn't see someone for dust
- you'd
- you'd be better off without him
- you do me an injustice
- you don't know
- you don't say