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action painting
noun
1.
(sometimes initial capital letters) Also called tachism. a style of American abstract expressionist painting typified especially in the works of Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s, in which the furiously energetic and free application of the paint is seen as being expressive of the psychological and emotional state of the artist at the moment of creation.
Origin:
1950–55, Americanism
1950–55, Americanism
Related forms
action painter, noun
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