Sentences with phrase «whose field of action»

In origin this is a material force, that of terrestrial compression acting on a rapidly growing population composed of elements whose field of action grows even more rapidly.

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However, by the beginnings of the 1960s, leadership of the movement had shifted to the color - field and abstract imagist painters, whose followers in the 1960s rebelled against the irrationality of the Action painters.

Neither purely abstract nor expressionist, the style embraced two broad groupings: the school of «Action Painting» (a style of gestural painting) whose leading members included Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning; and the more passive style of Colour Field Painting practised by Mark Rothko and others.

Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his White Writing style of calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and Bursts).

Minimalism was the final stage in the logical development of Abstract Expressionism, whose style went from gestural (action - painting) to plane - work (colour field painting) to sharply defined geometrical planes and patterns (hard edge painting) to Minimal Art.

The Sax Institute has awarded its annual Research Action Awards to three researchers whose work has helped transform policy and practice in the fields of vaccine safety, maternal and reproductive health and strengthening the Medicare System.