The impasto technique itself, which
entails layering paint on a canvas so thickly that it can appear to be emerging from the canvas, resembles the effects of movie carnage, which can seem to flow off the screen.
Unlike the kind of action that is so identifiable in Abstract Expressionist
painting, which
entails the different
layers in the case of Pollock's drip
paintings, scraping and repainting in the case of de Kooning, you sort of invented your own kind of action
painting, in a way.