The legacy of Action Painting continues to influence contemporary artists, who continue using the methodologies of instinct and physicality in order to express their individuality as it relates to the common humanity of our times.
The dancers act as Newsome's pens, and echo
the legacy of action painting and abstract expressionism.
Not exact matches
Through
paintings and film, Busuttil directly questions the
legacy of British colonial
action in Africa — an unresolved debate, as evidenced recently by the emergence
of the #rhodesmustfall movement.
Influenced by Jackson Pollock's method
of action painting, Kaprow gravitated toward the act
of making a
painting more than the
painting itself, and in his 1958 essay «The
Legacy of Jackson Pollock,» he called for the overthrow
of objects by
actions.
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.»
In the work Up to and Including Her Limits (1973 - 77), Schneemann literally enters an «arena
of painting» to engage with, extend, and critique the
legacy of Jackson Pollock,
action painting, and Abstract Expressionism.
• Pollock the Existential Painter • Influences • Breakthrough • Pollock's Move towards Gesturalism • Drip
Painting Technique • Characteristics
of Action Painting • Pollock in the 1950s • Pollock's
Legacy