Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. [international post-1945 styles and movements]
6. [post-1945 fine arts styles and movements]
7. Art Informel

Anotations

Scope note:

French painting similar to American Action Painting, including that of the late 1940s sometimes called Abstraction Lyrique. Use "Lyrical Abstraction" for the continuation of Abstract Expressionism into the 1960s and 1970s (e.g., Guston, Frankenthaler).