Abstract exhibitionism was popular due to the fact that Americans were enjoying a lot of benefits from being world power.
This style of painting was developed in New York in the 1940s. In the post war period, this became very popular as the Average American celebrated the growth they had based on the world war.
It was done as a way to speak against the materialism and other affluence that people were enjoying.
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