Arabs such as the al-Thanis of Qatar pay record prices for the abstract expressionism of Mark Rothko.
We're accustomed to understanding Rothko as part of the evolving style that came to be called Abstract Expressionism.
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Flavin dabbled in Abstract Expressionism himself before turning to Minimalism and, ultimately, his signature fluorescent motif in the 1960s.
Abstract Expressionism and Pop art obviously did better over the past 50 years.
He lived long enough to see the blossoming of abstract expressionism in the early fifties but never paid attention.
By that time Mr Twombly had found his style, one that diverges distinctively from Abstract Expressionism and almost satirises it.
At least he has understood that art is more demonstrative, even exhibitionist, than it was during the heyday of abstract expressionism in the 1950s.
The gallery highlights works ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Pop.
And Phillips's admiration for Abstract Expressionism, when that was still a suspect style, is evident in pieces by Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning, among others.
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The jagged break with the High Modernist creed of Abstract Expressionism is in some instances easier to see in this sideshow than in the main rooms.
Abstract Expressionism was at its height.
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By pointedly choosing to portray subjects that were two-dimensional in their own right, he was pursuing the path set a decade earlier when Jasper Johns first painted an American flag, ingeniously showing that the vaunted flatness of Abstract Expressionism could paradoxically be consistent with realism in certain circumstances.
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