Sentences with phrase «founder of action painting»

Pollock was also one of the founders of action painting, which involves the artist splashing and dribbling paint onto the canvas, rather than using brushes.

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They range from pre-Gutai works, painted by Shiraga during the Zero - Kai period, to the action painting that characterized the early years of the movement, including both small and large pieces by Jiro Yoshihara (Gutai's founder), Shozo Shimamoto, Chiyu Uemae, and Takesada Matsutani.

Famous for his brutal brushwork, impasto textures and clashing colours, he exemplified the «gestural painting» style of the New York School, along with other abstract artists like Franz Kline (1910 - 62), Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 84), the founders of «action painting».

Highly influential, one 1961 show, ZERO: Edition, Exposition, Demonstration, held both inside and outside Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf, in which performers marked out a «Zero zone» with white paint around other participants, blew bubbles and launched a balloon into the night sky was witnessed by artist Joseph Beuys — who had his first one man show that year and started to give action - performances in 1963 — and Nam Juin Paik, Korean founder of video art.

An influential member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, and one of the most influential figures in American art, Jackson Pollock was the founder of the innovative painting technique, known as Action Ppainting technique, known as Action PaintingPainting.