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
Mr. Metzger discovered his ideal medium for auto-destructive art with a form of action painting.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2017
Links could also be drawn to the wry, body-based work of Bruce Nauman and the gestural athleticism of action painting.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2014
A 1956 action painting by Franz Kline, “Shenandoah,” had belonged to the New York collectors Robert C. Scull, the taxicab tycoon who died in 1986, and his wife, Ethel, who died in 2001.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2012
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
