for whom the bell tolls / up and away or down to pay

// abstract expressionism

paradise on judgment day

"the music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between"

The emerging Abstract Expressionist composers had an impetus to move away from biomorphic Surrealism, and toward an increasingly reductive style that emphasized a more personal expression. 

They ventured into the world of color as expressive, emotional object in its own right. Still created musical canvases marked by bold colors that were torn up and ruptured by other juxtaposing textures and forms, angular, uneven and vivid. 

They experimented with abstract symbols before moving towards entirely abstract fields of color. They sought an approach that might strip away all extraneous motifs and communicate everything through one powerfully resonant symbol.

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