The Impressionists, Fauvists and the Abstract Expressionists tended strongly to be painterly movements. It opened with works by the Berlin Secessionists, the Impressionists and the Expressionists. Fahey's works are evocative of action painters and abstract expressionists. Stylistically the group ranged from Abstract Expressionists to social protest painters. Those drips emulated the style of successful abstract expressionists (such as Willem de Kooning). Photorealism evolved from Pop Art and as a counter to Abstract Expressionists. It became an artists' colony in the mid-20th century, popularized by the Abstract Expressionists. The Expressionists in Germany and the Futurists in Moscow mounted productions of his plays. His ideas were particularly popular among American Abstract expressionists in the 1940s and 1950s. Marin is often credited with influencing the Abstract Expressionists. Yet all four artists are classified as abstract expressionists. The other abstract expressionists followed Pollock's breakthrough with new breakthroughs of their own. Some have interpreted this as a rejection of the hallowed individualism of the abstract expressionists. The German Expressionists used woodcut a good deal. The expressionists focused on the expressive distortions of El Greco.