Ideas L'aCtion Painting
Ideas L'aCtion Painting . The term was coined by the american art critic harold rosenberg to characterize the work of a group of american abstract expressionists who utilized the method from about 1950. Just as the artist affects the canvas by making a mark on it, that mark in turn affects the artist and determines the trajectory of the next mark. Action painting, sometimes called gestural abstraction, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. Most typically, the action of action painting is associated with how the artist puts paint on canvas.