action painting
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He keeps his studio door open to Marvin, who studied art history at Yale and comes alive when talking about such things as the bold gestures of action painting.
From Los Angeles Times
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
It was action painting as improvisational dance, Abstract Expressionism delightfully expressing the joy of play.
From New York Times
Happenings took the painting out of action painting and left only the action.
From New York Times
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
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