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action painting



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Dubbed "action painting," Pollock drew in the space above the canvas -- creating shapes in the air which would fall to the canvas below.

From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2023

We could blame it on secular modern life, but Velázquez’s cold dissections of courtly power and his vigorous action painting have proven much more popular.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

Mr. Metzger discovered his ideal medium for auto-destructive art with a form of action painting.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2017

Add Cécile Giovansili-Vissière's lush lighting and voilà, an action painting comes to life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2014

The ants were, together with the New Yorkers, an abstraction, a live mobile, an action painting, a piece of found art, a happening, a parody, depending on the light.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas



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