action painting

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.

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

It was action painting as improvisational dance, Abstract Expressionism delightfully expressing the joy of play.

Happenings took the painting out of action painting and left only the action.

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.