Action Painting

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Action Painting Action painting was also
called action, which belonged to the
abstract expression art. The style was widespread
from the 1940s until the early 1960s, and was
closely associated with abstract expressionism
(some critics have
and "abstract expressionism
used the terms "action
painting" interchangeably).
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A comparison was often drawn between the American
action painting and the French tachisme. North
Carolina Black Mountain College in the United
States has always adopted the most radical tests
with no fixed courses. Among the incoming
avant-garde ideas from Black Mountain College and
Europe, there was a surrealist automation theory
of art. The Spanish painter Milo has made this
theory into practice. He put the paint splashed
on the canvas, then dipped in the colors of the
brush and moved it around the canvas. This
technique of automatism directly inspired action
painters in the United States. And French Masson
Be Milos stroke was more relaxed. The whole
canvas showed a burst of lines and a discharge of
fibrillation color. They had a direct effect on
Gorki and Pollock in the United States.
In this period, existentialist philosophy was
very popular among the American painters. They
believed that it was very necessary to take the
risk of failure to reach a new height. Therefore
they made the experiments boldly.
Abstract expressionist painters advocated to
completely get rid of all the
traditional aesthetics and disregard any social
significance. They advocated the random and
spontaneous personal performance to create a kind
of unconscious automatic painting. The
representative painter was Pollock.
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