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
She studied with Hans Hofmann, who taught so many of New York’s abstract expressionists, but gave up action painting for sculpture.
From The Guardian • May 3, 2016
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
