Abstract Impressionism.
A term coined by Elaine
de Kooning
to describe paintings that resemble certain late Impressionist pictures (notably those of
Monet
) in their brushwork but have no representative content: ‘Retaining the quiet uniform pattern of strokes that spread over the canvas without climax or emphasis, these followers keep the Impressionist manner of looking at a scene but leave out the scene.’ In 1956 the critic Louis Finkelstein applied ...