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Abstract Expressionism embraced a wide variety of postwar American painting through which the US first became the center of the avant garde. ... The expressive aspect of this art has been linked to the subjective heroism of earlier forms of Expressionism as well as to the Surrealist technique of automatic writing.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s Jackson Pollock, considered the foremost Abstract Expressionist, placed his canvases on the floor to pour, drip, and splatter paint onto them and to work on them from all sides, which set him apart from the tradition of vertical easel painting. ... Another component of the Abstract Expressionist school used large planes of color, often to evoke invisible spiritual states (Tuchman 41). ... The term Abstract Expressionism has also been applied to the work of sculptors such as Herbert Ferber and David Hare.
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