Five Forgotten Female Artists of Abstract Expressionism

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It has proved reliable, as a general rule of thumb, that where mass destruction takes place creativity will follow – and never was this truer than in the wake of the Second World War. The chaos that reigned in the mid-20th century inspired vigorous waves of creativity and, as the war ended, pioneering new techniques in artistic expression emerged around the world. Formats became more experimental. Paintings grew to monumental scales. The 1950s are often described, in fact, as a breaking…