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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. ..... Click the link for more information. . action paintingDirect, 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. action painting a development of abstract expressionism evolved in the 1940s, characterized by broad vigorous brush strokes and accidental effects of thrown, smeared, dripped, or spattered paint How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In these photographs that are visually closer to abstract gestural painting than photography, all has been omitted for the light and its movements to be fully expressed. Rothko painted more masterpieces but died of booze and ethical confusion; Still became a crank and stopped painting masterpieces; and Guston eventually saved himself and gestural painting by telling jokes in the dark--but that came much later, and he was attacked as a latter-day Pop artist for daring to do so. Pia Fries typically crosses broad, white grounds with thick brushstrokes, furrowing and altering the picture plane with blots, traces of drops, superimpositions, and washes, as if the canvas were once again the arena it was for classic gestural painting. |
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