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After World War II, American artists seemed to drop a bomb on German Expressionism, splattering the representational side of it and leaving only the naked expression. In German Expressionism, emotion distorts the face of reality, the way human faces are distorted by extreme feelings, but are still recognizable. In Abstract Expressionism, emotion distorts reality beyond all recognition. The most famous Abstract Expressionist, Jackson Pollock, achieved this effect by throwing paint on his canvases.