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Illustrator — Lesson 1

Abstract Expressionism is the first major American art movement to achieve international influence, emerging in New York in the 1940s. It consists of two broad tendencies: gestural 'action painting' (characterized by energetic, improvisational mark-making) and color field painting (using large areas of color to evoke emotional or spiritual states).

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A colleague proposes categorizing a painting with large, flat expanses of blue and red as Action Painting because 'it feels energetic.' What is the flaw in this assessment?

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