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action painting

In abstract art, a form of abstract expressionism that emphasized the importance of the physical act of painting. It became widespread in the 1950s and 1960s. Jackson Pollock, the leading exponent, threw, dripped, and dribbled paint onto canvases fastened to the floor. He was known to attack his canvas with knives and trowels and bicycle over it. Another principal action artist was Willem de Kooning.

The term ‘action painting’ was first used by US art critic Harold Rosenberg in 1952. Tachisme, another term for action painting, comes from the French tacher, meaning ‘to stain’ or ‘to spot’.



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As painters, they adapted and hybridized some of the looseness and ambivalence of '40s figuration and the game-playing of gestural abstraction.
Richard Hawkins by Ferguson, Russell / Artforum International
His vaguely Johnsian, three-dimensional wood pieces of the early '60s and the subsequent muted, tactile, gestural abstractions on collaged paper that can be hung recto or verso (1967-75) are eccentric and engaging and reminiscent of the unstructured works of Richard Tuttle.
Manny Farber: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego by Artforum International
In the early '60s, this Dutch master traded gestural abstraction for the painstaking and exact reworking of found motifs, first on wrapping paper from Japanese department stores like Mitsukoshi, then everywhere his life as a traveler took him: Van Golden refused to participate in the race for novelty.
Daan van Golden: Galerie Micheline Szwajcer by Pontegnie, Anne / Artforum International
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