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The 67 pages that link to Abstract Expressionism, each with the reason it gives.

• SurrealismRelated: Its emphasis on spontaneous gesture developed in a different context from Surrealist automatism.

• MinimalismCompared with: Minimalists rejected the expressive gesture that Abstract Expressionists made central.

• Pop artCompared with: Pop art redirected attention from personal gesture toward recognizable images circulating in public life.

• Abstract artBroader topic: It became a major later movement in which abstraction took expressive and gestural forms.

• Modern artBroader topic: Its rise shifted the perceived center of modern painting toward New York.

• German ExpressionismRelated: Its later reception drew on European modernist precedents, including Expressionist emphasis on subjective expression.

• Geometric abstractionCompared with: Its gestural emphasis contrasts with geometric abstraction’s ordered forms.

• Color field paintingNarrower topic: Color field painting grew within this movement while shifting attention from gesture toward sustained color.

• Wassily KandinskyRelated: Kandinsky’s precedent for autonomous abstract painting informed later artists and criticism.

• Claude MonetRelated: Some artists and critics found precedents for expansive abstraction in Monet’s late canvases.

• New York SchoolRelated: The painters’ circle overlapped with this movement while developing its own informal identity.

• Clement GreenbergBroader topic: Greenberg became one of the movement’s most influential advocates and interpreters.

• American artBroader topic: Its rise shifted international attention toward American art after World War II.

• HappeningCompared with: Happenings shifted emphasis from the painter’s canvas to actions unfolding in time.

• Op artCompared with: Its expressive gestures contrast with Op art’s controlled patterns and calculated visual effects.

• PhotorealismCompared with: Photorealism countered its dominant emphasis on visible gesture and abstraction.

• Jackson PollockNarrower topic: Pollock became one of the movement’s most recognizable artists and helped define its public image.

• Art Students League of New YorkBroader topic: League-trained artists such as Jackson Pollock connected its teaching legacy to this movement.

• Action paintingNarrower topic: Action painting developed as one of its major approaches.

• Hard-edge paintingCompared with: Its visible brushwork and gestural energy contrast with hard-edge painting's controlled surfaces.

• Automatic drawingRelated: Some artists adapted automatist spontaneity into gestural painting, though with different aims.

• Gestural abstractionNarrower topic: Gestural abstraction became one of its defining approaches.

• Hans HofmannRelated: Hofmann influenced the movement’s artists and critics without fitting neatly into a single style.

• Peggy GuggenheimNarrower topic: Guggenheim’s support helped introduce emerging American painters associated with the movement.

• Color fieldNarrower topic: Color-field painting developed within this movement as an alternative to gestural abstraction.

• Lyrical abstractionRelated: Lyrical abstraction inherited its gestural freedom while developing a distinct later identity.

• Mark RothkoNarrower topic: Rothko’s mature work emerged alongside this movement, though his quiet fields differed from gestural painting.

• Robert RauschenbergCompared with: Rauschenberg’s use of images and objects challenged the movement’s emphasis on autonomous abstraction.

• Joan MiróRelated: Miró’s signs and spontaneous marks became points of reference for later abstract painters.

• Neo-DadaCompared with: Neo-Dada’s found imagery and objects challenged the expressive painting associated with this movement.

• Non-objective artRelated: Some of its artists treated paint and gesture as subjects in their own right.

• Willem de KooningNarrower topic: De Kooning helped establish the movement’s variety and prominence.

• Harold RosenbergNarrower topic: Rosenberg’s writing helped define how this movement was understood.

• John AshberyNarrower topic: Ashbery wrote criticism about contemporary art, including the New York scene surrounding this movement.

• Lee KrasnerNarrower topic: Krasner became a central New York painter within this postwar movement.

• Paris SchoolCompared with: Its recognized movement identity contrasts with the Paris School’s stylistic diversity.

• Postmodern artCompared with: Its ideal of singular artistic expression contrasts with postmodern quotation and borrowed imagery.

• Regionalism (American art)Compared with: Its rise shifted attention away from the recognizable regional subjects that had defined 1930s debates.

• Thomas Hart BentonCompared with: Its rise displaced the representational Regionalism with which Benton remained closely identified.

• Helen FrankenthalerNarrower topic: Frankenthaler emerged from its New York milieu while developing a contrasting approach to the canvas.

• NeoplasticismCompared with: Its emphasis on gesture and individual expression differs from Neoplasticism’s controlled geometry.

• Roy LichtensteinCompared with: Lichtenstein's impersonal-looking, borrowed imagery challenged the movement's emphasis on expressive brushwork.

• Allan KaprowRelated: Kaprow began as a painter before questioning the limits of painting as an object.

• American Scene paintingCompared with: Its rise shifted attention from recognizable national scenes to abstraction and individual gesture.

• Naum GaboCompared with: Gabo’s precise, constructed forms offer a distinct alternative to the movement’s gestural painting.

• TachismeCompared with: Its gestural painting resembles Tachisme but arose in a different national context.

• Andrew WyethCompared with: Its dominant emphasis on abstraction contrasted with Wyeth’s recognizable subjects and controlled technique.

• Arshile GorkyNarrower topic: Gorky's late paintings helped establish visual possibilities later developed by its artists.

• Frank O’HaraRelated: O’Hara’s daily work and friendships connected his poetry to the painters who shaped this movement.

• James SchuylerRelated: Schuyler’s circle engaged with the movement’s artists while his poems pursued a less abstract attentiveness.