Please answer the following question: Information: - Abstract expressionism is a postWorld War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. Although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine "Der Sturm", regarding German Expressionism. In the United States, Alfred Barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky. - The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th Century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward into the 1960s. - William Theophilus Brown (April 7, 1919 February 8, 2012) was an American artist. He became prominent as a member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. - Paul John Wonner ( April 24 , 1920 -- April 23 , 2008 ) was an American artist who was born in Tucson , Arizona . He received a B.A. in 1952 , an M.A. in 1953 , and an M.L.S. in 1955 all from the University of California , Berkeley . He rose to prominence in the 1950s as an abstract expressionist associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement , along with his partner , Theophilus Brown ( 1919 - 2012 ) , whom he met in 1952 while attending graduate school . In 1956 , Wonner started painting a series of dreamlike male bathers and boys with bouquets . In 1962 , he began teaching at the University of California , Los Angeles . By the end of the 1960s , he had abandoned his loose figurative style and focused exclusively on still lifes in a hyperrealist style . Wonner died April 23 , 2008 in San Francisco , California . Paul Wonner is best known for his still - life paintings done in an abstract expressionist style . What is the relationship between 'paul wonner' and 'abstract expressionism'?
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movement