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.
Not exact matches
But when
painted - up soldiers emerge from enormous wooden lean - tos and start slashing each other's throats with what looks like serrated ping - pong paddles, that
kind of local color lends novelty to something that a lot
of action fans will have otherwise seen before.
Fukui's distinctly fresh approach creates a
kind of Pollock - like frenzy
of color, re-inventing
action painting with a Hadron Collider
of images.
Instead
of action painting, one has a
kind of action curating.
Precisely the same
kind of things occur in the act
of making a
painting except that in
painting each
action and each judgment is made against the presumption
of a final simultaneity, «the thing itself».»
Artists such as Nevelson and David Smith became known for large - scale outdoor sculptures and public art, while Aaron Siskind sought to capture the same
kind of energy and movement in his photography that Pollock was attempting to evoke through
action painting.
(But there is also a
kind of kinship with
action painting, the spontaneous delight that comes from discovering the possibility
of everything, the act itself, the gesture as material - motif.
Yet in the Bacchus
paintings, there's an extraordinary sense
of release, so you have this idea
of reprise and release, which moves in a
kind of temporal
action through the different eras
of Twombly's work, as though he returns again and again to a problem and then finds new energy in the way he releases it both in gesture and in the way he addresses each canvas.
Larson equates the act
of moving the body through the landscape and the act
of bending to pick things up as a
kind of in - situ
action painting.
In a way, he was proposing a new
kind of «
action painting.»
By reducing
paintings to mere signs
of themselves, McCollum turned the gallery and the museum setting into a
kind of theater, highlighting the drama
of presenting, displaying, buying and selling, exchanging, photographing, assessing, criticising, choosing, and writing about the works; the object -
paintings at the center
of the
action were purposely rendered moot, in order to turn one's attention to the supplementary devices and social practices that, in the end, bestow the value on the work.
It brings to mind Allan Kaprow's 1958 essay «The Legacy
of Jackson Pollock,» in which he suggested that artists following Pollock could choose to «develop an
action kind of painting» or «take advantage
of the
action itself, implicit as a
kind of dance ritual.»
These subjects require a much greater variety
of paint - handling than the figure
paintings, resulting in loose, open surfaces that are a
kind of imagistic
action painting.
Unfortunately, what this
kind of ripping, cutting, dropping, and rubbing
action connected me to were aspects
of Color Field
painting.
Action painting, direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic
kind of art that involves the spontaneous application
of vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes and the chance effects
of dripping and spilling
paint onto the canvas.
Let's talk about Vagina
Painting (held at Filmmaker Cooperative at Astor Place in 1965 where Jonas Mekas would occasionally let Maciunas take over the space to use for his Fluxfest) which was considered a kind of parody of Yves Klein's use of the female body as a painting tool, as well as Pollock's action p
Painting (held at Filmmaker Cooperative at Astor Place in 1965 where Jonas Mekas would occasionally let Maciunas take over the space to use for his Fluxfest) which was considered a
kind of parody
of Yves Klein's use
of the female body as a
painting tool, as well as Pollock's action p
painting tool, as well as Pollock's
action paintingpainting.
«Some
of the labels that became attached to Abstract Expressionism, like «informel» and «
Action Painting,» definitely implied this; one was given to understand that what was involved was an utterly new
kind of art that was no longer art in any accepted sense.