Usually means: Abstract painting, spontaneous brush strokes.
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▸ noun:  A French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

Similar:
tonalism, op art, cool art, automatism, matter painting, tenebrism, Techspressionism, Spatialism, expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, more...

Opposite:
realism, figurative art

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Similar:
tonalism, op art, cool art, automatism, matter painting, tenebrism, Techspressionism, Spatialism, expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, more...

Opposite:
realism, figurative art



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