While in the post-WWII period, Abstract Expressionism moved the center of Western artwork from Paris to New York City. Amongst the first influences inside the increase of abstraction, the critic Clement Greenberg, had supported de Kooning's early summary work. Regardless of Greenberg's assistance, the artist, who had begun to be a figurative painte

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