For US collections which include
examples of action painting, see: Art Museums in America.
It is
an example of an action painting, made not with a brush but by dripping paint directly from the can onto the canvas lying on the floor.
Motherwell, the artist who coined the term «Abstract Expressionism,» was, in at least one major work in this booth, a true
example of the action painting he championed so eloquently in his writings and his teaching.
Not exact matches
For
example, I think
of painting as a stage set on which symbolic
action is performed.
Previous influential works by their peers and predecessors are also featured, such as
examples from Yves Klein's Anthropométrie, which uses the naked female body as a living
paint brush, and Andy Warhol's invocation
of automatic movement and
action through his series
of Dance Diagrams.
For instance, it often confuses
examples of abstract expressionism and
action paintings, in which artists drip or fling
paint and step on the canvas.
Stella may have set an
example for Ryman by insisting that all the
action in a
painting, including the interplay
of materials, must show itself for what it is.