Action Painting

As much as my paintings try to engage and transgress languages of action painting, they encapsulate the moment they were made. 

With their muted palette of blues and grays, van Lankveld's muddy, impressionistic works recall Old Master canvases by way of Surrealist automatic drawing and Jackson Pollock's actio...

This striking panoramic canvas serves as a powerful tribute to the action painting of the mid-20th-century New York School.

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

Layers of splattered and flowing paint create a sense of movement, freedom, and boundless motion across the canvas, capturing the spontaneous spirit of action painting. This expressi...

The angular, slashing strokes recall action painting methods, while the restrained, earthy color range situates the work closer to the quieter, introspective end of that tradition.

Paul’s technique exemplifies the ‘action painting’ ethos, dynamic, gestural, and rhythmically charged.

Cabessa was born in Morocco, raised in Israel, and has lived and worked in New York City since 2000. Her slow action painting has been internationally recognized since 1997 when she...

Cabessa was born in Morocco, raised in Israel, and has lived and worked in New York City since 2000. Her slow action painting has been internationally recognized since 1997 when she...

Words that describe this painting: wildflowers, floral, flowers, nature, abstract, sky, color field, dripping, drip, Jackson Pollock, cool, intuitive, spontaneous, action painting, s...

Frost has developed a unique process that is part painting and part collage. His method is based on instinct and intuition, similar to automatic drawing or action painting.

Frost has developed a unique process that is part painting and part collage. His method is based on instinct and intuition, similar to automatic drawing or action painting.

Frost has developed a unique process that is part painting and part collage. His method is based on instinct and intuition, similar to automatic drawing or action painting.

Frost has developed a unique process that is part painting and part collage. His method is based on instinct and intuition, similar to automatic drawing or action painting.

In the 1950s he became interested in Abstract Expressionism and the action painting of the New York School. Over the years, he became a painting of the movement.

Words that describe this painting: floral, abstract, garden, wildflower, meadow, countryside, rural, summer, flowers, splash, Jackson Pollock, dripping, expressive, action painting, ...

Provenance: Estate of the Artist Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1971 Collection Maryann Youngren, 1971-1980 Christie’s, New York, May 16, 1980, lot 7 Private Collection, 1980-1998...

In the 1950s he became interested in Abstract Expressionism and the action painting of the New York School. Over the years, he became a painting of the movement.

This dynamic abstract painting is part of the artist's new series of action paintings, entitled 'Instinct' which features spontaneous yet deeply profound broad strokes of colors in v...

Artists chose to focus on painting’s formal properties, and Action Painting took inspiration from the political freedoms of the United States, in opposition to the strictures of the ...

Artists chose to focus on painting’s formal properties, and Action Painting took inspiration from the political freedoms of the United States, in opposition to the strictures of the ...

Frost has developed a unique process that is part painting and part collage. His method is based on instinct and intuition, similar to automatic drawing or action painting.

The artist’s technique, reminiscent of action painting, captures emotion through gestural lines and splatters.

Frost has developed a unique process that is part painting and part collage. His method is based on instinct and intuition, similar to automatic drawing or action painting.

Frost has developed a unique process that is part painting and part collage. His method is based on instinct and intuition, similar to automatic drawing or action painting.

Frost has developed a unique process that is part painting and part collage. His method is based on instinct and intuition, similar to automatic drawing or action painting.

Frost has developed a unique process that is part painting and part collage. His method is based on instinct and intuition, similar to automatic drawing or action painting.

Words that describe this painting: acrylicpaint, action painting, expressive, abstract, warm, energy, gestural, abstract, acrylic painting, redHuzzeedleCourtney JacobsAcrylic paintin...

Words that describe this painting: abstract, expressionism, dramatic, action painting, abstract, non-representational, acrylic painting, greenLoopsee3Courtney JacobsAcrylic painting ...

Words that describe this painting: abstract, expressionism, dramatic, action painting, abstract, non-representational, acrylic painting, greenLoopsadeeCourtney JacobsAcrylic painting...