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Visual art is undoubtedly a powerful medium for self expression, particularly when words are difficult to find. When pre-inscribed meaning is no longer tethering a creative articulation, the songs that arise can be a remarkable kind of profound.

The term Abstract Expressionism mostly refers to a handful of American painters, a post–World War II movement developed in New York in the 1940s and the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence, putting New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris— though it also includes work …