action painting
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Happenings took the painting out of action painting and left only the action.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What interested her was the physical action in “action painting.”
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