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 ● Feb. 3, 2024
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
Yet as Kang drew concentric circles on the floor with chalk and flopped around in a pastel version of action painting, he expressed plenty of frustration with uncertainty.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2022
Mr. Metzger discovered his ideal medium for auto-destructive art with a form of action painting.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2017
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
