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Order and chaos finally have meaning together. The movement of abstract painting emerged in New York during the nineteen-forty’s. It is also called action painting and the New York school. “The New York school was significant in American paintings because it d ....

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.... to what message the artists were trying to relay? began as lyrical and as a remembrance of the past that ended up forcefully and boldly dramatic. “Basic to most abstract expressionist painting were the attention paid to surface qualities, ie., qualities of brushstroke and texture: the use of huge canvases: the adoption of an approach to space in which all parts of the canvas played an equally vital role in the total work; the harnessing of accidents that occurred during the process of painting; the harnessing of accidents that occurred during the process of painting; and the glorification of the act of painting itself as a means of visual ....