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The Energy of American Expressionism:
When people think of expressionism in American art of the 20th Century, Abstract Expressionism usually comes to mind. However, Abstract Expressionism was not a style. Emerging in New York in the 1940’s, it was a breaking away from traditional European painting and the Socialist Realism in Eastern Europe and Russia. Thus leaving behind the figurative and exploring the free flowing expression of automatism, dealing with impulse and chance - an unpremeditated action. This made the United States look far more progressive, during the cold war.

In the 1950’s on …