TAMPA, Fla. — Here's five things to know about the Tampa Museum of Art's latest visiting exhibition, "Abstract Expressionism: A Social Revolution":

• The post-World War II art movement flew in the face of what art's institutions and critics deemed was "acceptable."
  “Artists that immigrated here after World War II, and that were here in the United States following World War II, had a new sense of freedom that was won by the war," explained Michael Tomor, TMA’s Executive Director.
• Abstract artists worked to create a "new" art, one that was not constrained by any traditional sense of realism or naturalism. It didn't have to "look" like anything -- what mattered was the individual viewer's response.
• Many in the art world initially reacted to the movement with horror. (They usually do that, though. Works by Impressionist masters such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir were decried as abominations at the end of the 19th Century. They started the movement away from strict visual representation in art that eventually led to the Abstract Expressionism movement, however, and today they're among the most highly collected and expensive works of art in the world.)
• The Tampa Museum of Art's exhibit contains both visiting pieces and its own collection of examples of Abstract Expressionist art.
• The exhibit is on display until August 11.

To learn more about the exhibit and what visitors will see and experience, watch the video above.