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Abstract Expressionism was an American post-World War Ⅱ art movement. World WarⅡ led many influential European artists (67) leave their war-tom countries to travel to America. This (68) a dramatic increase in the (69) . American artists got to European Modernism and other art movements such as Surrealism. The art movement (70) its name from the unique (71) of the emotional intensity of the German Expressionists and the anti-figurative design of certain European Abstract art (72) . The name of this movement was mainly (73) to the artists working in New York in the 1940-50s, and was first used to (74) American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates. (75) , the artists sharing the same name had quite different (76) , and the work of art accomplished is neither (77) abstract nor expressionist. Despite the huge (78) of Abstract Expressionism, the movement can be split (79) two main categories, i.e. Action painting and Colour Field painting. Action painting, sometimes called "gesture abstraction", is a style of non-representational painting (80) paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas (81) being carefully applied. The work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself (82) an essential aspect of the (83) work or concern of its artist. (84) , Colour Field painting is characterized by canvases being (85) entirely by large fields of solid colour. Abstract Expressionism was the first American movement to achieve worldwide influence .and also put New York City at the (86) of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris: