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is a radical style of art with which artists outdistance their models, adding full, violent colour, and bold distortion. It was created by artists who felt uneasy expressing themselves with conventional styles of art that could not correctly convey their visions ....

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.... characteristics: The paintings are usually rather large; they are an expression of thought through the use of gestural or "action" painting; they are commonly painted with strange objects; they are usually filled with vibrant, shocking colours and many other things not normally! associated with other "classical" forms of art - these artists are trying to paint raw emotion, not pretty pictures. The painters who came to be known as "Abstract Expressionists" shared a similar outlook rather than a style - an outlook of revolt and a belief in the freedom of expression. The main thing these artists had in common was that they valued, above all, indiv ....