Background of Abstract expressionism

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Abstract expressionism is american painting movement that began in the late 1940’s and became popular in western painting during 1950’s. Abstract expressionism is an inaccurate description of the body of work by the artist. The movement comprises that varies techniques and quality of expressionism. The artist usually emphasize on free, spontaneous, and personal emotion expression. it is a movement that they translated into a new style fitted to the post-war mood of anxiety and trauma. In their success, these New York painters robbed Paris of its mantle as leader of modern art, and set the stage for America’s dominance of the international art world.