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Example sentences for: expressionism

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The Whitney attempts to redeem the Realist painter from his reputation as a vapid schlockmeister, deeming him a precursor to Abstract Expressionism.
But more and more of these disengaged bits of audio expressionism are floating around us, daring us to make sense of them.
Johns' 1958 show figures in many stories of American art as the first step in the turn away from abstract expressionism, from the hot grandiloquence of Pollock and De Kooning toward the cool of pop, minimalism, and conceptual art--the art of the '60s and after.
The title of his sendup of abstract expressionism, Painting with Two Balls (1960)--and there they are, squeezed forlornly between two big panels of drips and brushstrokes--is about as explicit as Johns ever gets.
But the following decade, even this gave way to works of pure nonrepresentational electricity, so bursting and swooping they make you want to use words like "painterly" and "gestural"--oxymoronically, they seem to be a kind of Abstract Expressionism built from little, carefully scissored bits of magazine photographs.