His artistic experimentations and insatiable search for
the absolute aesthetic expression that is ever present and never fading, marked the middle of the previous century, but as many artistic and industrial uses of IKB show, this influence continues to live even today.
Action painting is distinguished from the carefully preconceived work of the «abstract imagists» and «colour - field» painters, which constitutes the other major direction implicit in Abstract Expressionism and resembles Action painting only in its
absolute devotion to unfettered personal
expression free of all traditional
aesthetic and social values.