Abstract Expressionism

Abstract expressionism is an art movement in American painting after World War II. It grew amongst painters in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the Western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.

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One well-known painter from this school was Jackson Pollock. Many of his paintings looked like drips of paint on canvas.