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direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that
involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping
brushstrokes andthe chance effects of dripping and spilling paint
onto the canvas. The termwas coined by the American art critic
Harold Rosenbergto characterize the
work of a group of American Abstract Epressionists !seeAbstract
Epressionism" who
utilized the method from about #$%&. Action painting is
distinguished from the carefully
preconceived work of the 'abstract imagists( and 'colour)field(
painters, whichconstitutes the other ma*or direction implicit in
Abstract Epressionism and resembles
Action painting only in its absolute devotion to unfettered
personal epression free of all
traditional aesthetic and social values.
Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a
style ofpaintingin
which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto
the canvas, rather thanbeing carefully applied.+#The resulting work
often emphasizes the physical act of
painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or
concern of its artist.
Action Painting- A styleof abstractpaintingthat
usestechniquessuch as the dribbling or splashing of paint to
achieve aspontaneouseffect. In Action Painting the canvasis the
arena in whichthe artist acts. The action of painting becomes a
moment in thebiography of the artist -- the canvas becomes the
index(record of the
event. !ost associated with several of theAbstract
"xpressionistartists#including $illem %e &ooning (%utch#
')*-'+# active in the , andac/son Polloc/ (American# ''0-'12#
though not all Abstract"xpressionists were Action Painters.
[edit] Notable action painters
-orman luhm
/ames rooks
0am 1rancis
2ichael 3oldberg !0tuart" 1ranz 4line
5illem de 4ooning
Albert 4otin
/os6 3uerrero
7ee 4rasner
8onrad 2arca)Relli
/oan 2itchell
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/ackson 9ollock
2ilton Resnick
/ack Tworkov
:smail 3ulgee
Abstract expressionismwas an American post;5orld 5ar :: art
movement. :t was thefirst specifically American movement to achieve
worldwide influence and put-ew ? bythe art critic Robert 8oates,it
had been first used in 3ermany in #$#$ in the magazine
Der Sturm, regarding 3erman Epressionism. :n the @0A, Alfred
arrwas the first to
use this term in #$$ in relation to works by 5assily
4andinsky.+#
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