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action painting
(redirected from Direct painting)

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action painting: see abstract expressionism abstract expressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school.
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action painting

Direct, instinctual, dynamic style of painting that involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping brush strokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas. The term characterizes the work of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline. The “automatic” techniques developed in Europe by the Surrealists in the 1920s and '30s had great influence on U.S. artists, who regarded a picture not merely as a finished product but as a record of the process of its creation. It was a major force in Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. See also automatism, Tachism.
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Not only do they owe a great deal to the French tradition of direct painting (Monet, Vuillard, Matisse), but their painted frames and interior frames are indebted to such sources as Seurat and Diebenkorn.
Howard Hodgkin: Gagosian Gallery by Kuspit, Donald / Artforum International
The artworks have a sophisticated, painterly quality that is achieved with more control and less mess than direct painting.
Irresistible by Curio, Michele / School Arts
Evaluating the project The individual panels offered several advantages over direct painting on the wall.
Artwall by Hiester, Sue Moore / School Arts
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