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1. Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist.

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2. Action painting, direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas. The term was coined by the American art critic Harold Rosenberg to characterize the work of a group of American Abstract Expressionists who utilized the method from about

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3. Action painting definition is - abstract expressionism marked especially by the use of spontaneous techniques (such as dribbling, splattering, or smearing).

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4. Action Painting is predicated on the idea that the creative process involves a dialogue between the artist and the canvas. Just as the artist affects the canvas by making a mark on it, that mark in turn affects the artist and determines the trajectory of the next mark.

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5. Action painting, sometimes called Abstract Expressionism, evolved in the s and s, during a time of unrest following World War II. There was much anxiety about the potential impact of the.

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6. The Act of Painting. The name "action-painting" was first used in by the American critic Harold Rosenberg (), in a review of avant garde art called "The American Action Painters", which appeared in the December edition of Art News. According to Rosenberg, action-painting gave complete freedom to the painter's creative impulses, and made the act of painting more important than the work .

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7. noun. (sometimes initial capital letters) Also called tachism. a style of American abstract expressionist painting typified especially in the works of Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning in the s, in which the furiously energetic and free application of the paint is seen as being expressive of the psychological and emotional state of the artist at the moment of creation.

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8. Art critic Harold Rosenberg coined the term “action painting” in to describe the work of artists who painted using bold gestures that engaged more of the body than traditional easel painting. Often the viewer can see broad brushstrokes, drips, splashes, or other evidence of the physical action that took place upon the canvas. 3 examples.

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9. Action Painting About A term coined by the American critic Harold Rosenberg in to define a specific set of Abstract Expressionist artists who saw the canvas as an “arena in which to act.”.

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