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title: "Radical and controversial: The paintings of Abstract Expressionism"
date: 2019-10-11
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/lee-krasner-abstract-expressionism-usa-new-york-lee-krasner-2019-context-en/"
description: "Energetic, progressive and expressive. How Abstract Expressionists turned the art scene upside down."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/header_3._Lee_Krasner_Abstract_No._2___1947__IVAM_Centre__Spain.__c__The_Pollock_Krasner_Foundation.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Radical and controversial: The paintings of Abstract Expressionism