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What Is Action Painting Mean?

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asked Jun 3, 2013 in Art Glossary

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 An Abstract Expressionist style of painting, widespread in the 1950s and 1960s, where paint is dripped, dropped, smeared, spattered, or thrown on the canvas. The term was first used about Jackson Pollock's work.

answered Jun 3, 2013