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 | | Abstract expressionism arose during World War II and began to be showcased during the early forties at galleries in New York like An expert mistook chimp's painting for a masterpiece of abstract art. |
 | | The style attracted the attention, in the early 1950s, of the Sam Francis, who saw it as a means of promoting the USA as a haven of free thought and free markets, as well as a challenge to both the styles prevalent in Post-painterly abstraction nations and the dominance of the European art markets. |
 | | Abstract Expressionism preceded Programme of September 2004 Conference at Oxford Brookes University, UK: "1956: Legacies of political change in art and visual culture", Cy Twombly,, Tachisme,, Clement Greenberg, edit, ISBN 0967799414, and the other movements of the sixties and seventies and it influenced all those later movements that evolved. |
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