No form, only expression.

Technically, an important predecessor is surrealism, with its emphasis on spontaneous, automatic, or subconscious creation.

The movement's name is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus, and Synthetic Cubism. Additionally, it has an image of being rebellious, anarchic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, nihilistic.

Name	Years	Nation	Genre	Preview	Works	Rating
Hofmann, Hans	1880-1966	American	Abstract Expressionism		19	1
Tobey, Mark	1890-1976	American	Abstract Expressionism, Northwest School		20	1
Rothko, Mark	1903-1970	American	Abstract Expressionism, Color Field		49	1
Kooning, Willem De	1904-1997	Dutch, American	Abstract expressionism, Surrealism		27	3
Gorky, Arshile	1904-1948	American	Abstract Expressionism		14	1
Newman, Barnett	1905-1970	American	Abstract Expressionism, Color Field		9	1
Jackson Pollock	1912-1956	American	Abstract Expressionism		24	3
Louis, Morris	1912-1962	American	Color Field, Abstract Expressionism, Post-painterly abstraction, Washington Color School		14	1
Martin, Agnes	1912-2004	American	Abstract expressionism, Minimalism		34	1
Richard Diebenkorn	1922-1993	American	Abstract expressionism, Color Field, Lyrical abstraction, Bay Area Figurative		7	1
Karl Benjamin	1925-2012	American	Abstract Expressionism		21	1
Robert Rauschenberg	1925-2008	American	Neo-Dada, Abstract Expressionism		6	1
Frankenthaler, Helen	1928-2011	American	Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Lyrical Abstraction		12	1
Jasper Johns	1930-	American	Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, pop art		9	3
Davis, Ronald	1937-	American	Abstract Expressionism, Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard-edge, Shaped canvas, Color field, Digital art		19	1
Landfield, Ronnie	1947-	American	Abstract Expressionism, Post-minimalism, Color Field, Lyrical Abstraction		10	1

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