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Photographer — Lesson 1

Abstract Expressionism is the first major American art movement to achieve international influence, emerging in New York in the 1940s. It encompasses 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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Which artistic tendency best describes Jackson Pollock’s 1950 work "One: Number 31"?

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