action painting

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The seven galleries of “Women Take the Floor” — divided into themes like landscape and action painting, textiles, printmaking and photography and abstraction — were meant to fix this oversight.

From New York Times

What interested her was the physical action in “action painting.”

From New York Times

But they also are, as the frequent flecking of red-brown drips attests, a form of action painting.

From Washington Post

You become more aware of Ms. Kalman as a miniaturist of action painting, especially in backgrounds and foregrounds.

From New York Times

Why shouldn’t theater artists pose as direct an assault on the senses as a Charlie Parker jazz riff or a Janis Joplin wail or a Jackson Pollock action painting or a Lenny Bruce harangue?

From Los Angeles Times