It has been described as a new twist on an old form: German Expressionism.
Arabs such as the al-Thanis of Qatar pay record prices for the abstract expressionism of Mark Rothko.
Expressionism, as practised by David Bomberg with whom he studied, made its mark on him early on.
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.
Not the various subordinates who pass through the womblike limo, itself an exercise in expressionism (it seems to shape-shift, but that may be the angles).
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.
Now "German Expressionism 1900-1930: Masterpieces From the Neue Galerie Collection" allows us, once again, to revel in at least some of the riches of this small, fascinating institution.
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Young painters like Maqbool Fida Husain and Francis Newton Souza embraced avant-garde European movements like Cubism and Expressionism and advocated for a fresh take on Indian art as well.
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Using free, gestural brushwork and a nightmarish palette, Bellows often elongates and distorts the athletes' figures in a way that parallels German expressionism, which was developing across the Atlantic at the same time.
Lowry belongs to the powerful tradition of northern European expressionism and, among his many affinities, Spencer compares with the great Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera: fittingly, the travelling Spencer show has also been in Mexico city.
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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