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gestural painting

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gestural painting

Alternative term for action painting.


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In these photographs that are visually closer to abstract gestural painting than photography, all has been omitted for the light and its movements to be fully expressed.
Rothko painted more masterpieces but died of booze and ethical confusion; Still became a crank and stopped painting masterpieces; and Guston eventually saved himself and gestural painting by telling jokes in the dark--but that came much later, and he was attacked as a latter-day Pop artist for daring to do so.
Pia Fries typically crosses broad, white grounds with thick brushstrokes, furrowing and altering the picture plane with blots, traces of drops, superimpositions, and washes, as if the canvas were once again the arena it was for classic gestural painting.
 
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