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Lyrical Abstraction

Scope note

Use for certain works that continued Abstract Expressionism into the 1960s and 1970s (e.g., by Guston, Frankenthaler). For the French painting of the late 1940s sometimes called Abstraction Lyrique, use "Tachiste."

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300056510

Term used for

Abstraction, Lyrical

Created

12yrs ago

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