Examples of action painting in the following topics:
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- Action painting, created by Jackson Pollock, is a style in which paint is spontaneously splattered, smeared or dripped onto the canvas.
- Action painting is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied with a brush.
- Action painting is inextricably linked to Abstract Expressionism, a school of painting popular in post–World War II America that was characterized by the view that art is non-representational and chiefly improvisational.
- The term action painting was coined by the American art critic Harold Rosenberg in 1952 in his essay "The American Action Painters", signalling a major shift in the aesthetic perspective of New York School painters and critics.
- Action painting refers to the spontaneous activity that was the "action" of the painter, through arm and wrist movement, painterly gestures, leading to paint that was thrown, splashed, stained, splattered, poured, and dripped .
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- The artists of the New York School drew inspiration from surrealism and other contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theatre, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle.
- The canvas as the arena became a credo of Action painting, while the integrity of the picture plane became a credo of the Color Field painters.
- Painters, sculptors, and printmakers created art that was termed Action painting, Fluxus, Color Field painting, Hard-edge painting, Pop art, Minimal Art and Lyrical Abstraction, among other styles and movements associated with abstract expressionism.
- Poets drew on inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular the Action painting of their friends in the New York City art world like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
- Jackson Pollack is known for his techniques in action painting, a style of abstract expressionism in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.
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- Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s.
- The movement places less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action than Abstract Expressionism, favouring instead an overall consistency of form and process, with color itself becoming the subject matter.
- During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Clement Greenberg was the first art critic to suggest and identify a dichotomy between differing tendencies within the Abstract Expressionist canon—especially between Action Painting and what Greenberg termed "Post-Painterly Abstraction" (today known as Color Field).
- Moving away from the gesture and angst of Action painting towards flat, clear picture planes and a seemingly calmer language, Color Field artists used formats of stripes, targets and simple geometric patterns to concentrate on color as the dominant theme their paintings.
- The most basic defining technique of painting is application of paint, and the Color Field painters revolutionized the way paint could be effectively applied.
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- The movement abandoned geometric abstraction in favor of a more intuitive form of expression, similar to Action Painting in the United States.
- Abstract expressionism was a school of painting in the United States that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s.
- In its wider definition the term describes art that depicts real forms in a simplified, or rather reduced, way, keeping only an allusion to the original natural subject, such as in the paintings of Joan Miró.
- Tachisme is a specific French style of abstract painting under the greater movement of Art Informel.
- Serge Poliakoff painted in the French tachisme style of Art Informel.
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- Jackson Pollock's energetic action paintings, with their "busy" feel, are different both technically and aesthetically from the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning.
- In later years, Color Field painting has proven to be both sensual and deeply expressive, albeit in a different way from gestural abstract expressionism.
- During the late 1940s, Jackson Pollock's radical approach to painting revolutionized the potential for all contemporary art that followed him.
- His move away from easel painting and conventionality was a liberating signal to the artists of his era and to all that came after.
- Jackson Pollack is known for his techniques in action painting, a style of abstract expressionism in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.
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- Postmodern painting rejects modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction and eradicates the boundaries between high and low forms of art.
- Color field painting, Hard-edge painting and Lyrical Abstraction emerged as radical new directions.
- By the early 1960s Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.
- It's also seen as a continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting and precedents in Pop painting.
- Evaluate the characteristics of postmodern painting, and the precursors that led to its development.
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- Neo-Expressionism is a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s.
- Related to American Lyrical Abstraction of the 60s and 70s, the Bay Area Figurative School of the 50s and 60s, the continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting, and precedents in Pop painting, Neo-Expressionism developed as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalist art of the 1970s.
- His career was amplified in the 1960s after the police took action against one of his paintings because of its provocative and offensive sexual nature.
- The return to traditional painting in the late 1970s and early 1980s seen in Neo-Expressionist artists such as Georg Baselitz and Julian Schnabel has been described as having postmodern tendencies, and as one of the first coherent postmodern movements.
- For Jean-François Lyotard, paintings by Valerio Adami, Daniel Buren, Marcel Duchamp, Bracha Ettinger, and Barnett Newman, after the avant-garde's time and the painting of Paul Cézanne and Wassily Kandinsky, were the vehicle for new ideas of the sublime in contemporary art.
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- This technique refers to the interplay between light and dark and is often used in paintings of dimly lit scenes to produce a very high-contrast, dramatic atmosphere.
- The chiaroscuro technique is visible in the painting The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens.
- Other important Baroque painters include Caravaggio (who is thought to be a precursor to the movement and is known for work characterized by close-up action and strong diagonals) and Rembrandt.
- Chiaroscuro refers to the interplay between light and dark and is a technique often used in paintings of dimly lit scenes to produce a very high-contrast, dramatic atmosphere.
- This technique is visible in this painting by Peter Paul Rubens.
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- However, art also comes from intentional, conscious actions that aim towards specific external goals, and those qualify as the motivated purposes of art.
- This painting reflects contemporary events, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X of France.
- The painting reflects the context of the time: namely, a shift towards representing political current events in art.
- An example of religious art, this painting was commissioned by the Catholic Church during the Renaissance.
- Like a great deal of religious art, the painting is meant to communicate the spiritual beauty of the religious concept echoed in the aesthetic beauty of an oil painting.
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